Night Crossings

Digital Print

60 x 45cm

$330

This image evokes the feeling conveyed in David Whyte's beautiful and haunting poem “FINISTERRE": the concrete crossings, the spiritual crossings, the elemental crossings, and the final crossing we all make.
“The road in the end taking the path the sun had taken,
into the western sea, and the moon rising behind you
as you stood where ground turned to ocean: no way
to your future now but the way your shadow could take,
walking before you across water, going where shadows go,
no way to make sense of a world that wouldn't let you pass
except to call an end to the way you had come,
to take out each frayed letter you brought
and light their illumined corners, and to read
them as they drifted through the western light;
to empty your bags; to sort this and to leave that;
to promise what you needed to promise all along,
and to abandon the shoes that had brought you here
right at the water's edge, not because you had given up
but because now, you would find a different way to tread,
and because, through it all, part of you could still walk on,
no matter how, over the waves.”

I have been living in the Inner North since 2002 and loving it! I used to live in O'Connor but I moved to Hackett 10 years ago and feel very connected to the community here - particularly in terms of the artists who live in this area. I especially love the way Mt Majura rises up to meet me each time I come home, and because of the height of Hackett, I enjoy that feeling of being perched up high overlooking the valley of Canberra.