Sarah McCallum

>My mother had an entire room full of hidden things

Posted on February 7, 2011. Filed under: New Zealand, personal essay, Sarah McCallum, Turbine |

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Lucia Ganieva @ Lens Culture/

Sarah McCallum on the pleasures and fears of crowded rooms @ Turbine.

Sometimes at night I stand at my window and fly. Out over the hill that drops to the sea, with my fingers dragging through wave tips I drift over oceans, leaving a barely visible snail-trail of luminous protozoa across the skin of the sea.

No creature loves an empty space — except, perhaps, when they are crowded by the concreteness of existence.

A bed. 

A chair. 

A mirror. 

A wardrobe. 

A light fitting.

A curtain.

Sun-Door: Segueway N-2 SilenceA table.

I could write endlessly about the rooms I have lived in, the beds I have slept in and the chairs I have sat in.

I could write hopelessly about the buses I have waited for and the waiting rooms I have waited in.

I could write tirelessly about the spaces I have seen, been and done.

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