Etchings 7
Chameleons
| Colourful, playful, and particularly creative, the Chameleons issue abounds with ideas of change, disguise, double identities, and purely ephemeral moments of beauty. Jean-François Vernay probes the complex relationship between fiction and psychoanalysis. Theresa Mason invokes startling imagery with her creative non-fiction personification of the Australian bushfires. Gabriel Garcia's fictional viewer takes us on a retrospective journey through the Water Hole exhibition of Swiss artists Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger, held at the Australian Contemporary Centre for the Arts in Melbourne earlier this year. Inga Walton invites Melbourne-based Thai artist Bundit Puangthong to speak about the cultural fusion in his artwork featuring the bright colours and iconography of traditional Thai paintings. Pattern and narrative are explored in Douglas Kirwan's intricate paintings which stir ‘an optical whirlpool that obstructs the isolation of a single shape' (Claudia Terstappen). The strength of the fiction abounds throughout Chameleons, including a preview from Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee offering a pre-release glimpse into his fictional biographical new novel, Summertime, to be published in the UK later this year. Sallie Muirden creates a vivid and eccentric female character who has a sheep as a companion. Heather Fowler shows us familiar human traits, emotions, and attitudes through characters with wings, and others with eyes on their backs. And a beautiful moment between two old ladies sharing their memories in a story titled ‘Ducks' by A. S. Patric. The poetry in this issue ranges from short intense and quirky pieces to longer reflective and thought provoking works, all creating a mysterious, haunting, delightful play on the theme of Chameleons. Enjoy! | Paperback - 196pp |
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