Australia Day as projection-space : NGV and the Actor of Looking (again)

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O Attic shape! Fair attitude! this brede
__Of marble men and maidens overwrought,
This post of white and the trodden weed;
__Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought
As doth eternity. Cold field o' play!
__When old age shall this generation waste,
____Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,
__"Beauty is truth, truth beauty"---that is all
____Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

from Ode to an Aussie Ern (with apology to to JK)
(original at... )