these walls do talk

This photo

taken in a big shed
on a piece of land
that has watched a family
born and grow and return to dust

South Australia

Artists have lived here, makers and dreamers. Rough hands who have worked the land.
This still life has been thrown together at the end of long days
it makes my heart hurt

these walls do talk
they watch
listen
they absorb stories from ones so far back we barely remember them

and the stories become paintings
because
really how can words ever say
what these old corrugated walls hold