SILVERED

Recently landed: Silvered

Wrote Nicholas Caire (1837–1918) of the Fairy scene at the Landslip, Black’s Spur, c. 1878, we have since reprinted on silvered collage shards:
“The music of the gentle zephyrs playing among the great giant gums, combined with bird sonnets and other multifarious sounds of animal and insect life in the great forest, impressed one vividly with the feeling that we were within the precincts of fairy land. Veritable fairy glades, the windy fern-bound, and the innumerable fern gullies … is calculated to give the visitor, on his first impression a feeling of ecstatic bewilderment.”

And “ecstatic bewilderment” upon “first impression”, and lasting, very much suited this final stage of The remaking of things.

Continuing reading on Marginalia.

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2nd of March, 2023

After a brief stay, it was time for Oscar to join the colony once more. He’ll be somewhere overhead, feasting on figs and eucalypts in flower. And the last, shiny component of our piece, The remaking of things, is complete!