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Solaris 17.December 2005 - 5.February 2006 Four Houses One Landscape: State Highway Twenty These photographs were made in that part of State Highway Twenty known as the Mt. Roskill Extension. Homes and backyards were still visible but in the process of being relocated, demolished or allowed to revert to wilderness. The order and domesticity of the suburban landscape disrupted for what was deemed the greater good. June 2005 Some real things have happened lately. For a while we felt rich and then we didn’t. For a while we thought time was money, find the time and the money comes with it. Make money for example by flying the Concorde. Moving fast. Get the big suite, the multi-line telephones, get room service on one, get the valet on two, premium service, out by nine back by one. Download all data. Uplink Prague, get some conference calls going. Sell Allied Signal, Buy Cypress Minerals, work the management plays. Plug into this news cycle, get the wires raw, nod out on the noise. Get me audio, someone was always saying in the nod where we were. Agence Presse is moving this story. Somewhere in the nod we were dropping cargo. Somewhere in the nod we were losing infrastructure, losing redundant systems, losing specific gravity. Weightlessness at the time seemed the safer mode. Weightlessness at the time seemed the mode in which we could beat both the clock and affect itself, but I see now that it was not. I see now that the clock was ticking. I see now that we were experiencing not weightlessness but what is interestingly described on page 1513 of the Merck Manual (Fifteenth Edition) as a sustained reactive depression, a bereavement reaction to the leaving of familiar environments. I see now that the environment we were leaving was that of feeling rich. I see now that there will be no Resolution Trust to do the workout on this particular default, but I did not see it then. Joan Didion, The Last Thing He Wanted, 1996 |
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Allan McDonald 39. Corridor looking towards Mount Roskill, State Highway 20, 2004 Price: $1800 |
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Allan McDonald 40. House on Winstone Avenue, State Highway 20, 2004 Price: $1500 |
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Allan McDonald 41. House on driveway, State Highway 20, 2005 Price: $1500 |
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Allan McDonald 42. Geraniums, State Highway 20, 2004 Price: $1500 |
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Allan McDonald 43. Relocatable House, State Highway 20, 2005 Price: $1500 |
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