Polaroid Diaries - The "Woman Hiding" Series

Woman Hiding Behind Pelican - Rottnest Island.
Thursday, January 17, 2008, 2:59 PM

Dear Diary - As the pelican glides by I snap...as ever there is more to the picture than at first seems to enter the lens (or meets one's eye). Looking carefully at the shot I notice that the pelican appears to have a "lump" protuding from its forehead...but no...it's a hat - her hat - in the background. She was there, hiding behind the pelican!

I can't believe her elusiveness and the places she appears in "after the event"...

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Woman Hiding in Vineyard 2 - Margaret River Area.
Saturday, January 12, 2008, 12:07 PM

Dear Diary - wandering through the vineyard, casually considering the virtues of a decent red wine, I decided to snap a shot of the vines in all their bacchanalian potential... what do you know...? She was there... And I thought it was simply the early afternoon's wanderings and wonderings that were triggering a waking sopor, the generation of a daytime hallucination... But, no... She was there... hiding amongst the vines...
Unless my waking dreams transfer into the physical reality found in my film...

Stepping into Port Phillip Arcade.
Sunday, March 25, 2007, 1:55 PM

Dear Diary - Well, there I was in town, doing the usual - taking shots of the surroundings, looking for things that I could include in my diary, etc. Anyway, I see this sign of a pig on a clothing store ("Bobby's Cuts", I think) and I thought, "I like the look of that pig sign against the red of the "Port Phillip Arcade" sign. So, I get ready for the pic, try to adjust my lens to suitably read the light in this little alleyway off Flnders Lane, and I snap...Only to find, when I look at the shot that SHE is here...

she is hiding...here...in the blur of the captured light...
she is here...Stepping into Port Phillip Arcade

I look again, but she has gone...

All I have left is this hazy, blurred memory...

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Woman Hiding In Wardrobe.
Saturday, March 18, 2006, 1:58 PM

Dear Diary - I didn't notice her at first but when I actually did, I was so surprised to find her hiding in the wardrobe that I wasn't game to disturb her. It's so odd how she's starting to crop up in the strangest of places...often unnoticed by me until I take the time to view the diary snap at a later time...

Woman Hiding In Pine Forest.
Thursday, January 05, 2006, 5:54 PM

Dear Diary - what's that saying..."Can't see the forest for the trees"...?
I was out and about and heard a sound of rustling in the forest, a pizzicato snapping of undergrowth, separate and staccato, standing out from the ostinato of the constant ambient white noise of the wind in the firtops...Apart from the trees, I could see nothing specific. Was it my imagination...?...or perhaps the Polaroid 600 film I was loaded up with was affecting me...
Unsettled, I snapped in the general direction of the sound and moved on...
I am left wondering what she was doing there and why she chose to hide...

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