Tony Milne on 'A Layered Landscape' for Abode Magazine
Jul 11, 2024
Don’t it always seem to go, muses Tony Milne of Rough Milne Mitchell.
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'The morning of the beer at Curly’s I had run the coastal walk that connects the necklace of eastern beaches between Bondi and Coogee. A mix of concrete path and cantilevered boardwalk, you navigate around and over mammoth plinths of Hawkesbury sandstone. Stone that was thrust, bent and folded some 300 million years ago and further etched, eroded and sculpted by the relentless rolling of the Tasman Sea. Nooks, crannies and indentations are all places where plants cling in hope. A landform with an impressive biophysical narrative, but also a landscape of many layers, I posture, often hidden though.'
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Read the full article here.
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'The morning of the beer at Curly’s I had run the coastal walk that connects the necklace of eastern beaches between Bondi and Coogee. A mix of concrete path and cantilevered boardwalk, you navigate around and over mammoth plinths of Hawkesbury sandstone. Stone that was thrust, bent and folded some 300 million years ago and further etched, eroded and sculpted by the relentless rolling of the Tasman Sea. Nooks, crannies and indentations are all places where plants cling in hope. A landform with an impressive biophysical narrative, but also a landscape of many layers, I posture, often hidden though.'
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Read the full article here.
