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The bus rumbles all the way to Woomera \"\"<\/a>; in the quiet town centre crows call to one another and a distant dog barks <\/em>\"\"<\/a><\/em>. These are the things that linger in my mind, the sounds, and the feel of desert sand through my fingers, cratered rocks and weathered timber.<\/em><\/p>\n

A photo only captures a fragment of my experience, images only a fraction of my memories.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>We journeyed into the South Australian Desert in a mini bus with a hand made trailer bumping along behind us. Despite the fact we were all architecture and landscape students and this was a design studio no architecture was studied and plants were left undocumented. We painted instead, watercolours on rolls of paper, red earth and crushed leaves.<\/p>\n

Our first day in Woomera we visited the Detention Centre. A metal cage in the middle of nothing. The buildings were curiously decorated with murals, a speck of colour in all that concrete.<\/p>\n

Whilst watching one of our tutors goosing around with the soldiers on guard (one guess who he is in the photo) I heard some ghostly music \"\"<\/a>, a strange howling whistle and a rhythmic ‘clank clank’. On further investigation I discovered the strange music was coming from wind blowing through a hollow metal fence post with holes up the sides and the clanking of chains against a post in the carpark. This made me think about how much of memory is not visual, but auditory. How silent a photograph is. I decided that auditory memory would form part of my final project, a sensorial journey through the desert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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