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'I cannot but start with the looming scale of the sun - the half-pictures or contained slice we see in most drawings. Even there, we are obedient to that generic voice, to well-worn wisdom : don't stare direct. The corner of yellow in a child's picture. It's excess and repetition in sunspots and flares on photographic film. The close detail of this Festival's logo, and the scope it implies. Scope and scopic : despite what we are told as children, we are finding ways to see the sun - as Stow did, again and again in his work, from the very beginning, his world viewed through sun-bright lids. Sun in all its power, ripe gold and life miraculous, sun a wild yellow vision. Divine heat and terror, the cognisance of that sun's cataclysm...(Act One 18)' (Introduction)

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  • Author's note: This lecture was written as the 2024 Randolph Stow Memorial Lecture, held as part of the Perth Festival Literature and Ideas Programme at the State Library of Western Australia on 24th February 2024. The lecture is themed around the broader Festival's theme of Ngaangk, and is indebted to the work of those who have offered previous iterations of the Stow Memorial - in particular, the lectures of Chelsea Watego and Andrew Sutherland. This work takes on Sutherland's technique of incorporating Stow's words, using italics to distinguish. 

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    y separately published work icon Westerly vol. 69 no. 1 August 2024 28691545 2024 periodical issue 2024 pg. 79-98
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