A Stellar Read

Hi Friends. Remember me? I'm sorry I haven't posted in a while, I could make up some excuses as to why not, but instead I'll just tell you I've created an illustrated article for Overland (an Australian literary online/print magazine). You can read it here!

Stains

The Art of Swimming

For the curious: This is from a concertina zine I made for the author of Pools and Libraries. It's inspired by Leanne Shapton's Swimming Studies  and the Shaw Method of learning how to swim.

Sunday Swims

Prince Alfred Park Pool, 16:45, Feb. 3, 2015.

2015: The Year of The Mower

The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found   

A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,   

Killed. It had been in the long grass.

I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.   

Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world   

Unmendably. Burial was no help:

Next morning I got up and it did not.

The first day after a death, the new absence   

Is always the same; we should be careful

Of each other, we should be kind   

While there is still time.

(From Phillip Larkin's The Mower)