Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian & New Zealand Literature is the official journal of the American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS).
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ALT Black-and-white artwork of a dense greenhouse filled with leafy plants. Overlaid on the scene is a geometric framework of translucent rectangular shapes, creating a layered, architectural effect that contrasts with the foliage.
ALT Screen shot with text that reads ‘Rae White A robot discovers an overgrown garden, year 2121 After Jane Grealy's Maria's Garden, Scheme B (2021); pastel, conte and charcoal on paper; Museum of Brisbane Collection. 1. My black and white auto-gaze analyses pathos, glitches over gravel and ground cover, unsuccessfully corrals climbers leaking sunward. The straight lines of my eye don't work here-you can't square away something this unruly to bursting. My fingers titanium creak to toy, to touch. I switch to colour. 2. I would tell you that colour is light, reflection, wavelengths, eye, but you probably already know that. Up and click and flicker and on and there: lime, olive, forest, jungle, emerald, jade. I am succulent, salved, links clink and rusted wheels oiled to glistening.’
ALT Screen shot with text that reads ‘3. Animated. 4. I can only see midnight when green has turned evening. 5. Enlivened.’
ALT Black-and-white artwork of a dense greenhouse filled with leafy plants. Overlaid on the scene is a geometric framework of translucent rectangular shapes, creating a layered, architectural effect that contrasts with the foliage.
