Homage
to Baxter
Resonance XVI
Lindis River near Tarras
1994
I searched around a wide area of Tarras to try
and find an image that related to the project. This is in fact of the Lindis
River which caught my eye late one evening and I walked down the right
bank searching for an appropriate image that eluded me before the sun sank
below the horizon and darkness set in. I returned the next afternoon and
walked down the opposite bank until I came to this spot where a rusted
cable from the gold-dredging days had caught in the rapid while across
it was snagged a thin branch of willow. |
Reference:
Night in Tarras 1947
CP
By Tarras where a shadowless sun beats down
on range and river, scorching snowgrass brown
and dawarfish trees - we came where a small
stream flowed
From the rocks, a fructifying angle, glowed
To My Father in Spring 1966
CP 365
That smile like a low sun on water
tells of a cross to come.
Brown Bone
1961 CP 229
All the way to Gabriel's Gully.
I stretched out like a log
Dreaming of girls and cider,
And death came like a riding man
With hooves of mountain water. |