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Thursday, January 15, 2026

Bridgewater Bay Blairgowrie revisit for Water H2O Thursday

 


Bridgewater Bay at low tide reveals itself as a quiet benediction to those who look closely. As the sea withdraws, the shoreline lengthens and the bay exhales, uncovering a broad intertidal canvas where light, stone, and water enter into a slow and deliberate conversation. For photographers, this brief interval is a gift: the land pauses between immersion and exposure, offering forms and textures usually kept beneath the surface.

Here, the geology speaks with particular clarity. The ancient limestone platforms, shaped over millennia by the patient abrasion of Southern Ocean swells, emerge as pale, sculptural planes. Their surfaces are etched with fissures, shallow pools, and scalloped edges—evidence of long erosion and periodic collapse. These calcarenite formations, born of compacted marine sediments and shell fragments, carry the memory of a time when this coast lay submerged under warmer seas. At low tide, they stand exposed and vulnerable, momentarily reclaimed by the air and the sun.

The rock pools become small, reflective worlds in themselves, holding fragments of sky and drifting cloud. Seaweed clings to the stone in muted greens and rusted reds, softening the hard geometry of the rock. The water, now stilled and shallow, behaves less like an ocean and more like a mirror, catching the changing angle of light and returning it with gentleness. Every step across the platform requires attentiveness; the ground is uneven, alive with detail, and quietly insistent on respect.

Both Joel and I found ourselves moving slowly, unhurried, as if the landscape demanded a different measure of time. The camera became less an instrument of capture and more a means of listening. Each frame felt earned—shaped by the tide’s retreat, the low winter sun, and the restrained palette of the Mornington Peninsula coast. There was no need for spectacle; the power of Bridgewater Bay lies in its restraint.

When the tide eventually turns and the sea advances once more, the limestone will disappear beneath the water, and the bay will resume its familiar outline. Yet for those who have walked it at low tide, the memory lingers: a sense of having witnessed the coast in a more intimate state, where geology, light, and human attention briefly align.


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Tuesday, January 13, 2026

More Bushranger Bay shots for Treasure Tuesday

 







This post continues from Sunday, returning again to Bushrangers Bay at Cape Schanck—a landscape that asks for effort before it gives anything back. The walk itself was a reckoning for our sedentary bodies, every step a reminder of distance, weight, and time. The tide was high, erasing the intricate language of the exposed sea floor, denying us those fleeting revelations of rock pools and marine scars. At high tide the coast becomes uncompromising: corners cannot be navigated, passages close without apology, and the land reminds you that access is always conditional.

From there, the drive inland told a far more unsettling story. Melbourne to Bendigo, through Ravenswood—now spoken of in the past tense after a major bushfire tore through. Natimuk, near Horsham, an old town where I once visited nursing homes, burnt down as if memory itself were expendable. Longwood near Shepparton followed, acres reduced to ash. It felt less like isolated disasters and more like a state collectively alight, one ignition bleeding into the next.

And hovering over it all is the hollow ritual of government response: the loud, performative cry of “total fire ban,” repeated like a broken clock striking the wrong hour. While slogans echo, services are cut. Fire response capacity is thinned. Farmers are left to defend their land, their stock, their homes—often alone—despite paying special fire levies meant to ensure protection. Responsibility is devolved without consent, risk privatized, and accountability dissolved into press conferences.

What burns most fiercely here is not only bush or town, but trust. A government that substitutes warnings for action, bans for preparedness, and rhetoric for resourcing is not governing risk—it is outsourcing survival. And the cost is written plainly across the landscape, in blackened paddocks, erased towns, and the quiet exhaustion of people who were told help existed, only to discover it had been cancelled.


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Monday, January 12, 2026

Rupanyup Silo Art Vic Australia for Mural Monday

 


Rupanyup occupies a pivotal place on the Victorian Silo Art Trail, not only geographically but historically. Its silo artwork is among the earliest completed works on the trail and set a benchmark for how silo art could function as both public art and historical record within the Wimmera–Mallee landscape.

Location and context

The silos stand immediately adjacent to the Rupanyup railway line, a reminder of the town’s origins as a grain-handling and transport hub. Like many Wimmera towns, Rupanyup developed around wheat production, rail logistics, and seasonal labour. The silos, once purely utilitarian, now operate as a vertical canvas visible from kilometres away across the flat, open plains.

Artist and completion

The Rupanyup silos were painted in 2017 by Melbourne-based artist SMUG (Sam Bates), one of Australia’s most technically accomplished photorealistic muralists. At the time, large-scale silo murals were still relatively experimental in Victoria. This project helped legitimise silo art as a serious cultural initiative rather than novelty infrastructure decoration.

Subject matter: two figures, one shared history

Unlike many silo artworks that focus solely on agricultural themes, Rupanyup’s silos present two deeply symbolic local figures, each occupying one silo face:

Uncle Badger Bates

One silo depicts Uncle Badger Bates, a respected Wergaia Elder and Law Man. His inclusion foregrounds the long Aboriginal custodianship of the land, extending tens of thousands of years prior to European settlement. The portrait is rendered with solemn dignity: weathered skin, steady gaze, and fine facial detail that conveys authority rather than sentimentality. His presence reframes the silos—from symbols of colonial agriculture into markers of much older cultural continuity.

Sister Ethel May

The adjoining silo portrays Sister Ethel May, a pioneering bush nurse who served the Rupanyup district in the early 20th century. At a time when medical care in rural Victoria was sparse and travel was arduous, bush nurses were often the sole providers of healthcare across vast distances. Her image represents endurance, service, and the quiet heroism of rural women. The juxtaposition with Uncle Badger Bates is deliberate: two lives shaped by the same land, contributing in different but equally foundational ways to the community.

Artistic style and execution

SMUG’s trademark hyperrealism is evident throughout the work. The scale is monumental, yet the detail is intimate—creases around eyes, subtle tonal variations in skin, and carefully controlled light that prevents distortion when viewed from ground level. The neutral, earthy palette harmonises with the surrounding wheat fields and big skies, ensuring the artwork feels embedded in place rather than imposed upon it.

Cultural significance

Rupanyup’s silo art is often described as one of the most socially thoughtful works on the Victorian Silo Art Trail. It avoids nostalgia and avoids abstraction, instead offering a quiet, balanced statement about shared history, recognition, and coexistence. Importantly, it acknowledges Aboriginal presence not as a preface to settlement, but as an ongoing reality.



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Sunday, January 11, 2026

Bushrangers Bay Cape Schanck for Sunday Best

 




Bushrangers Bay is one of the new frontiers we have set for ourselves in 2026, a place that demands both patience and return. Reaching it requires a deliberate walk—close to fifty minutes along a largely flat coastal trail that slowly eases you away from the ordinary world. With each step, the signal fades completely; reception disappears, and with it the low hum of obligations. What remains is distance, time, and anticipation.

The path itself offers little drama, yet this restraint sharpens the senses. Low coastal scrub leans into the track, shaped by years of salt and wind, and the ground carries a quiet firmness underfoot, as if it has learned endurance. The bay does not announce itself early. It waits. Only near the end does the sound of the sea begin to overtake your thoughts, a deeper, more insistent rhythm than anything the city can produce.

Bushrangers Bay opens abruptly, raw and uncompromising. The water sits heavy and dark against pale rock, the shoreline carved with geological patience. Wind moves through the cove without apology, pressing hard against the body and pulling heat from the skin even as the sun bears down relentlessly. On our first visit, the air was thick with heat, yet the wind never relented—an exhausting, elemental contradiction that left no room for comfort.

This is not a place for quick work or casual visits. The bay reveals itself slowly, changing with light and tide. We already know we will return several times, particularly for the long, slanting hours of golden light, when the cliffs soften, the water begins to glow, and the severity of the landscape briefly turns generous. In those moments, the bay feels less like a destination and more like a conversation—one that cannot be rushed, and that insists on being met again and again, on its own terms.


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Thursday, January 8, 2026

Bridgewater Bay Blairgowrie for Water H2O Thursday

 


Beyond the much-photographed stone arch of Bridgewater Bay at Blairgowrie, the exposed seabed revealed a quieter magnificence—its wet rock and tidal contours lending themselves exquisitely to long-exposure photography, where time itself seems to soften and dissolve into silk and shadow.

I remain, even now, in a lingering festive temper, tempered by the prospect of days ahead marked by oppressive heat, with temperatures forecast to exceed forty degrees. In such conditions, the impulse is not toward movement or travel, but toward stillness: a contented inclination to remain at home, allowing the glare and fervour of summer to pass beyond the threshold, while memory and reflection provide their own, gentler occupation.


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Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Hosier Lane Mural Melbourne for Sign2

 


On my recent visit to Hosier Lane, there was, at first glance, little of note to arrest the eye. The lane, once celebrated as a lively and evolving canvas of Melbourne’s street art culture, now feels markedly diminished. Where there was formerly wit, provocation, and a sense of creative dialogue, there is increasingly a visual clutter that leans toward the careless and the coarse, as though expression has given way to excess.

Yet amid this decline, a single phrase stood out with unexpected force: “you exist.” In its stark simplicity, it carried a quiet authority that much of the surrounding graffiti lacked. Unlike the louder, more aggressive markings that now dominate the lane, these words required no explanation and no spectacle. They spoke directly, almost intimately, to the passer-by—an affirmation of presence and worth in a space that has grown visually hostile.

Hosier Lane’s transformation mirrors a broader tension within graffiti street art itself. What begins as rebellion and creative freedom often risks degeneration when novelty supersedes intention. The lane, once a showcase of layered skill and social commentary, has in many places turned rather ugly—less a gallery of ideas than a battleground of tags competing for dominance.

Against this backdrop, the phrase “you exist” felt like a reminder of what street art can achieve at its best: clarity, humanity, and resonance. In a lane overwhelmed by noise, it was this quiet assertion that endured, suggesting that even in decay, meaning can still surface—briefly, but powerfully.



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Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Sydney Harbour Bridge at night for Treasure Tuesday

 





On my most recent journey to Sydney, I found myself once more compelled to photograph the city by night. As ever, the train bore me across the city to the bridge, that great span from which Sydney reveals itself most eloquently after dark. Yet the experience proved unlike my previous visits; the familiar scene appeared altered, as though the city had chosen to show me a different aspect of its character, quieter and more reflective, yet no less commanding.

The bridge itself, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, stands as one of the defining works of Australian engineering and civic ambition. Conceived in the early years of the twentieth century, it was born of a pressing need to unite the northern and southern shores of the harbour, which until then were linked only by ferry. Designed by Dr John Bradfield, whose vision shaped much of Sydney’s modern infrastructure, the bridge took form under the engineering firm Dorman Long and Company of Middlesbrough, England. Construction began in 1923 and employed thousands during the difficult years of the Great Depression, becoming both a source of livelihood and a symbol of national resolve.

Completed and opened in 1932, the bridge is the world’s largest steel arch bridge of its kind, its vast curve rising with austere grace above the harbour waters. Built from more than 52,000 tonnes of steel and held together by millions of rivets, it was assembled from both shores toward the centre, the two halves meeting with remarkable precision high above the water. Its opening was marked by ceremony and controversy alike, famously interrupted when a ribbon was cut prematurely in political protest, an episode now woven into the bridge’s lore.

Since that day, the Harbour Bridge has carried trains, vehicles, cyclists, and pedestrians, serving not merely as a crossing but as a constant presence in the life of the city. By night, when its arch is traced in light and reflected upon the dark water below, it appears less a feat of industry than a great, luminous gesture—binding shore to shore, past to present, and the restless city to its enduring harbour.


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Monday, January 5, 2026

Dame Edna Place Mural for Mural Monday

 


I have passed this laneway, Dame Edna Place, many times over the years. For all that while, the wall bore no likeness of him—or her—no portrait to fix the passing gaze. There came a season, too, when his name was clouded by rumours of old transgressions, whispered and unresolved. After that, he withdrew into silence, retreating from the public ear, until at length he died, quietly, and was heard from no more.

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Sunday, January 4, 2026

Pearses Bay Sunset, Blairgowrie for Sunday Best

 


It is a rare comfort to pause after the labours of New Year’s Eve, for the mind does not surrender its haste at once, but asks for several quiet days before it can truly come to rest. The season has been marked by fierce heat and an unrelenting sun, so that the daylight hours press heavily upon the body and make any venture outdoors an exercise in endurance rather than pleasure.

Joel, meanwhile, is carrying his family northward on holiday to New South Wales, chasing a change of air and scene. I shall remain closer to home, content to trace a series of small, wandering excursions through the reaches of the Melbourne Fringe, finding interest in familiar streets seen at a gentler pace.

What follows is another image from my Pearses Bay sunset collection, completed over the course of 2025—a quiet record of evenings when the light softened at last, the heat loosened its grip, and the day surrendered, with a certain grace, to the calm of night.

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Friday, January 2, 2026

Bridgewater Bay Sunset Blairgowrie for Skywatch Friday

 


This, the final frame, was taken ere I departed the bay, ere darkness fell and made perilous the walk upon the exposed sea-floor. Bridgewater Bay, with its sands laid bare by the retiring tide, bears the memory of countless ages—fishermen of old, skiffs gliding over these waters, and the early settlers of Blairgowrie, who first tamed these shores. Even as the light waned, the gentle murmur of the sea seemed to recount their stories, and I lingered, mindful of the history written in every ripple and grain of sand. 



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Thursday, January 1, 2026

Bridgewater Bay Blairgowrie for Water H2O Thursday

 


As the new year turns, I have resolved to lay down two moderator roles on photographers’ Instagram pages. The labour has grown too heavy, and after five years of steady commitment—begun in the long shadow of the COVID period—it is time to relinquish those duties and reclaim some quiet measure of balance.

This photograph was taken at an old, familiar vantage point overlooking Bridgewater Bay in Blairgowrie. The infrared rendering, for all its interest, could not summon the same atmosphere or grace. Even so, the journey itself was not ill-spent. If anything, I was tempted by excess—hoping to draw two distinct visions from a single visit, and learning, perhaps, that one honest frame is sometimes enough.


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Monday, December 29, 2025

Leunig Mural in pink found in Brunswick Street Melbourne for Mural Monday

 


Michael Leunig, one of Australia’s most celebrated cartoonists and cultural commentators, passed away in December 2024 at the age of 79. Renowned for his whimsical line drawings and deeply reflective social commentary, Leunig’s work has touched generations of Australians through newspapers, galleries, and public exhibitions. Characters such as Mr Curly and the recurring symbolic ducks became emblematic of his gentle yet poignant worldview, combining humor, philosophy, and humanity in a distinctive style.

Traditionally rendered in black and white, Leunig’s illustrations have now found a renewed presence in Melbourne’s urban art scene. On Brunswick Street, long-standing merchants’ wall murals, once monochrome, have taken on vibrant hues under the guidance of Leunig’s daughter. These murals, painted in shades of pink, reinterpret the classic imagery and carry forward her father’s artistic vision, blending his legacy with contemporary street art.

Leunig’s daughter, an accomplished artist in her own right, has been actively involved in translating her father’s aesthetic into public spaces. Her work on the Brunswick Street murals demonstrates a fusion of familial heritage and urban creativity, preserving the spirit of Leunig’s illustrations while adding a fresh, colorful dimension to Melbourne’s streetscape.

Through these murals, the public continues to engage with the humor, insight, and tenderness that defined Michael Leunig’s career. His legacy endures not only on the page but in the vibrant canvas of the city itself, a living testament to the enduring power of art in everyday life.

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Friday, December 26, 2025

Montforts Beach Blairgowries for Skywatch Friday

 


It was only a quick shot, taken mid-ascent as I climbed the stairs toward the carpark, already half turned toward home. Yet the moment held me. The sky had thickened into a dense yellow, as if the light itself had been steeped too long, heavy and saturated. Below, the sea breathed upward, its air swollen with moisture, rich and almost tangible, clinging to skin and clothing alike.

Everything felt suspended in that brief pause between leaving and lingering—the day not quite finished, the weather not yet broken. The stairs rose behind me, the ocean remained at my back, and the world seemed steeped in colour and breath, quietly insisting on being noticed before I went.


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Thursday, December 25, 2025

Bridgewater Visit before Christmas for Water H2O Thursday

 


Joel and I gifted ourselves a pause, tucked close to the Christmas season, a quiet agreement to step away and wait for the land to open again. For seven long weeks, Saturdays—the day we reserve for wandering—were washed out by relentless rain, the kind that pins you indoors and dulls the edges of anticipation. But at last, the weather shifted. The tide fell to its lowest breath, and the forecast promised storms by the following day, the sort that, by our own well-tested superstition, paint the sky in bruised reds and ember tones before breaking.

On Christmas Day, we will walk toward Bushranger Bay, answering that long-held pull toward open air and salt wind. It feels earned, this return to movement, to rock and water and horizon, after so much stillness.

Nearby, Bridgewater Bay at Blairgowrie holds its own quiet authority. Sheltered and wide, it is a place where pale limestone meets calm, glassy water, where the bay softens the force of Bass Strait into something contemplative. The shallows reveal ribbons of seagrass and pale sandbars at low tide, and the headlands stand watch like old sentinels, weathered and patient. Even when storms loom offshore, Bridgewater Bay often rests in a deceptive calm, as though holding its breath while the sky gathers itself.

After weeks of watching rain stitch the windows shut, the thought of standing there—boots on stone, wind lifting the scent of salt, the sky tinged red with coming weather—feels almost ceremonial. A return to the outdoors, to the quiet drama of coast and tide, and to the simple, sustaining act of going out together again.

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Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Charlton town with Avoca River for Treasure Tuesday

 



The Avoca River has known both erasure and excess. There were years when its bed lay bare, a pale ribbon of stones and dust, the water reduced to memory and promise. At other times it has risen without restraint, spreading across paddocks and roads, reminding regional Victoria that absence is never permanent and that return can be forceful.

I had intended to stop in town, to step inside the renowned heritage general store where time is measured in ledgers and worn timber floors. Instead, the river detained me. Beneath the bridge, I paused, and there the Avoca offered something quieter. Trees leaned toward the water, their reflections drawn long and patient, doubling themselves in the slow current. Eucalypts, hardened by drought and fire, softened in the mirror below, leaves trembling between sky and stream.

This river is an old traveller. Rising in the Pyrenees, it winds north through box-ironbark country, sustaining red gums, reeds, and the careful lives of birds that wait for water as others wait for seasons. Long before bridges and stores, it shaped paths for people and animals alike, a corridor of nourishment in a land that demands resilience. Even now, its flow is uncertain, shaped by rain, heat, and the long human habit of taking more than is returned.

Standing there, camera lifted, I understood why the Avoca refuses to be merely useful. It dries, it floods, it pauses in reflective stillness. Under the bridge, with trees duplicated in its surface, the river held both its history and its warning: that survival here has always been an act of patience, and that beauty often appears when plans are gently undone.


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Monday, December 22, 2025

Hosier Lane Murals Melb for Mural Monday

 


The lane narrows and breathes in blue, brick sweating history through layers of paint and intention. One wall holds a figure half-remembered, chalked in pale blues and bruised whites, a body leaning forward as if listening to the city through the masonry. It is not heroic, not monumental. It is tentative, almost apologetic, as though the mural knows it will be overwritten, flaked away, revised by another hand tomorrow. Graffiti cuts across its flank like a muttered aside, the city interrupting itself.

Across the lane, an eye watches. Large, unblinking, impossibly blue. It floats inside a rough black field, surrounded by drips, tags, stickers, and half-erased names. The eye does not judge; it simply observes. It has seen tourists pause, cameras lifted, and locals pass without looking up. It has seen rain turn pigment into rivulets and sun harden fresh paint into permanence that never truly lasts. Someone has scrawled over its face, someone else has added color at the edges, and still the eye remains, alert and calm amid the noise.

Hosier Lane is never finished. These murals speak to each other across the narrow stone corridor: the fragile human form and the enduring gaze, the body that fades and the eye that remembers. Strange, yes, but honest. They accept interruption. They accept decay. They accept that meaning here is provisional, layered, and communal.

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Sunday, December 21, 2025

Long Teng Broken Bridge revisited for Sunday Best

 



In the heart of Taiwan, the remnants of the Long Teng Broken Bridge stretch across three distinct locations, each telling a story of resilience and memory. Once a proud railway crossing, the bridge bore the weight of trains and travelers, linking communities and carrying whispers of the past through its iron arches. Today, its skeletal remains stand as silent witnesses to time, a monument to both industry and the forces of nature that reshaped the land.

Surrounding each fragment, nature and human care intertwine. Walking tracks meander along the rusted steel and weathered beams, inviting visitors to pause and imagine the bridge in its heyday. Picnic areas emerge amidst the greenery, softening the echoes of history with laughter and quiet repose. In some locations, the bridge’s ruins are embraced within carefully designed garden parks, where flowers bloom alongside remnants of rails, offering a contemplative space where past and present converge.

The Long Teng Bridge’s story is not contained in a single place; it is scattered across the middle of Taiwan, each section reflecting a chapter of the nation’s development, the ingenuity of its engineers, and the unpredictability of the natural world. As sunlight glints on twisted metal and walkers trace the paths beneath its arches, the bridge lives again—not as a conduit for trains, but as a bridge between memory and the present moment.


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Friday, December 19, 2025

Pearses Bay Sunset Blairgowrie for Skywatch Friday

 


No clouds—only a brief, transient wash of cyan and pink in the sky, lingering for a moment before the light gives way to complete darkness. At Pearses Bay, dusk arrives cleanly, without ceremony, as though the day knows it has said enough.

For Joel and me, this small bay has always been the easiest pause from the city: a place where the air feels older, less disturbed. Long before it became a convenient refuge, the shoreline carried other lives and rhythms. The water remembers them. The bay once fed and sheltered people who read tide and season as instinct, who left no monuments except paths worn into the land and stories held in memory. Later came boats, industry, and the measured ambitions of settlement, each leaving its own faint mark—names, pylons, remnants half-claimed by salt and weed.

Standing here now, the past feels close, not dramatic but persistent. The hush after sunset seems layered, as if the quiet itself has been used before. Footsteps fade, conversations soften, and the bay resumes its long habit of waiting. In that waiting, Pearses Bay offers more than fresh air; it offers continuity—a reminder that the city is only the most recent chapter, and that even in a brief moment of color before night, the land is still telling its older story.


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Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Signs 2 in Melbourne

 



In the first, the elevated frame opens onto a quiet exchange: a couple seated in unguarded ease, absorbed in the gentle theatre of people passing by. They watch the world as it unfolds below them, and in turn I watch them, a second layer of observation settling over the scene. The moment holds a calm reciprocity—seeing and being seen—where nothing is posed, yet everything feels composed.

The second image shifts tone. Here stands the grey man, the familiar spectre of every parked car’s unease. Muted and indistinct, he inhabits the edge between presence and authority, a figure defined less by personality than by consequence. His neutrality is his power. Where the first scene lingers in leisure and quiet curiosity, this one carries a low, practical tension—the reminder that order, time, and limits are always quietly enforced.

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Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Yayoi Kusuma exhibition for Treasure Tuesday

 





Joel and I stood inside the mirror room of Yayoi Kusama’s exhibition, enclosed by reflections that multiplied us into quiet infinities. Polished surfaces repeated every gesture, every pause, until the body seemed to dissolve into pattern and light. Points of illumination hovered and receded, appearing at once intimate and immeasurable, as though the room were breathing in slow, deliberate pulses.

Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Room offered more than spectacle; it was a carefully constructed meditation on scale and self. The mirrored walls erased boundaries, while the controlled choreography of light—dots, glows, and reflections—extended the space far beyond its physical limits. In that suspended moment, time felt elastic, and the act of looking became inseparable from being seen.

The room invited stillness and attentiveness, rewarding patience with fleeting alignments of light and reflection that felt uniquely personal, yet universally shared. For a brief interval, the exhibition distilled Kusama’s lifelong preoccupation with repetition, obliteration, and infinity into a single, luminous experience—one that transformed photography into an act of quiet witnessing rather than mere documentation.


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