Watching the river flow
The symposium Museums, Collecting and Agency, the third event in a large ARC (Australian Research Council) grant project called Museum, Field, Metropolis, Colony: Practices of Social Governance was held at the Australian Museum in Sydney in the Night Parrot Room. It is in a brick building that was the first classroom built in the colony of Sydney. Its exposed handmade bricks are very similar to those you see in Tasmania, made by convicts and highly individual in their textures and surfaces. They reminded me of how spending time in a place other than the one you usually live in awakens you to its layers of history.