You can’t train the ear; it does what it does. But what can be trained, I think, is listening, which is very close to what we might call consciousness.
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Whenever anyone asked me about Spring Hill I’d show them a photo of the IES building and ask if they’d ever seen it before. When people said no, which most of them did, then I got to tell the story the way I always told it.
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When Nat pitched me to write this essay in an email that included a prompt along the lines of “great art in ugly rooms” I couldn’t help but smile, because it was the exact kind of confidence and self-awareness one looks for in an artist you’d like to befriend.
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The government has just begun rolling out JobSeeker—a revamped and significantly-increased version of the unemployment payment formerly known as Newstart. This is a big deal: for many low-income earners, JobSeeker (or JobKeeper) represents a significant increase in cashflow.
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At the end of 2018, among the vague resolutions I made for self-improvement—better work-life balance, resting more often, and so on—I set one clear goal for the new year: I would read thirty-six books.
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One night you will wrap up early after spending the day working on your social enterprise, business, or non-profit. Exhausted, you will take one last you look at the list of tasks you completed that day. And the list will look small.
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I recently spent ten weeks undertaking back-to-back writing residencies across New South Wales and Tasmania, and while away I spent a lot of time thinking about landscape.
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Essays, interviews, and curated images featuring Tess Mehonoshen, Kaitlyn Rogers, April Giblin, and Holly Anderson.
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