Abstract
The fi ling cabinet in my bush camp at Millibinyarri is like a dream. Like in a dream, things are not quite right. It has drawers, but they won’t open. They must be rusted shut. The gloss has gone off the outside paint, so it remains a kind of buff red ochre.
I have an idea, but I can’t fi le it correctly. I tug at a drawer. It won’t
open.
I think my artist friend Bernadette Trench-Thiedeman, who lived here once, composed this fi ling cabinet with things on top: An empty bird cage with a white cocky feather sticking out. A fish shape made from a bent coat- hanger wire. Shells and rocks from the beach. A hurricane lamp. This filing cabinet belongs in a dream. Out of it seeps a fondness that floats around the Millibinyarri bush camp.¹
I have an idea, but I can’t fi le it correctly. I tug at a drawer. It won’t
open.
I think my artist friend Bernadette Trench-Thiedeman, who lived here once, composed this fi ling cabinet with things on top: An empty bird cage with a white cocky feather sticking out. A fish shape made from a bent coat- hanger wire. Shells and rocks from the beach. A hurricane lamp. This filing cabinet belongs in a dream. Out of it seeps a fondness that floats around the Millibinyarri bush camp.¹
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Writing Architectures |
| Subtitle of host publication | Ficto-Critical Approaches |
| Editors | Hélène Frichot, Naomi Stead |
| Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury |
| Chapter | 19 |
| Pages | 232-237 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781350137929, 9781350137912 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781350137905 |
| Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Keywords
- Architecture
- Fiction
- Creative writing
- ficto-criticism
- architectural criticism
- cultural studies/ethnography
- Jane Rendell
- Stephen Muecke