Laneway Art - Artist - Mikala Dwyer
Milk and the town that went mad
Mikala Dwyer
"Underwood Street seemed a street that had a feel of deathspace or nonspace. A somewhere in need of poetry and a place to smoke and day dream, even if just for a time. So a strange and simple word ‘milk’ inserts itself between ‘under’ and ‘wood’ to be come ‘Under Milk Wood’.
‘to begin at the beginning: it is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courtiers'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea.’
‘we are not wholly bad or good, who live our lives under milk wood’
Dylan Thomas
Inserting milk into the gap between ‘under’ and ‘wood’ prises open another place. An extra space is generated by listening to a story, a nondescript lane in Sydney becomes described and momentarily interwoven with Llareggub, or maybe Sydney is now remapped as a suburb of Llareggub."
Taken with Sigma 10-20mm, tripod & 3 bracket shot. HDR conversion in Nik Software HDR Efex Pro, PP in CS5.
Laneway Art - Artist - Mikala Dwyer
Milk and the town that went mad
Mikala Dwyer
"Underwood Street seemed a street that had a feel of deathspace or nonspace. A somewhere in need of poetry and a place to smoke and day dream, even if just for a time. So a strange and simple word ‘milk’ inserts itself between ‘under’ and ‘wood’ to be come ‘Under Milk Wood’.
‘to begin at the beginning: it is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courtiers'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea.’
‘we are not wholly bad or good, who live our lives under milk wood’
Dylan Thomas
Inserting milk into the gap between ‘under’ and ‘wood’ prises open another place. An extra space is generated by listening to a story, a nondescript lane in Sydney becomes described and momentarily interwoven with Llareggub, or maybe Sydney is now remapped as a suburb of Llareggub."
Taken with Sigma 10-20mm, tripod & 3 bracket shot. HDR conversion in Nik Software HDR Efex Pro, PP in CS5.