FOUR BLINDS IN THE JOHN MEDLEY BUILDING
by Natalie Bühler
Perspective: Four blinds in the John Medley Building
Get directions: 37°47’57.5″S 144°57’37.7″E
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DAY TIME
NIGHT TIME
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One response to “Four Blinds”
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Nicely done!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Natalie Bühler is an emerging writer, poet, editor and arts administrator living and working on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country in Melbourne. She is one of the founding editors of The Marrow International Poetry journal and is currently studying a Master of Creative Writing, Editing and Publishing at the University of Melbourne. Her work has appeared in Cordite, Tint, ambient receiver, Hills Hoist, Blue Bottle Journal, boats against the current, and the Tinted Trails and Tell Me Like You Mean It anthologies.
Words from NATALIE
This is a piece about four blinds hanging in a classroom I attended a seminar in last semester. Each blind has its own perspective on ‘blind’-ness, which I tried to represent by using differing techniques to write them: Blind One is written as a simple prose poem, thinking of itself in poetic terms and questioning its existence. Blind Two uses a near- repetition technique (the last word of each sentence is phonically mirrored by the first word(s) of the next) to express its frustration at only being partially unwound. Blind Three is still remembering the factory, so I’ve used only words from the product website for these blinds in this part. Blind Four is the oldest one there, so I’ve re-used all the words in Blind One to Three to write its two parts – an anagram poem, essentially. During the day, it is convinced of its own superiority to natural materials, but at night, it questions its own durability.
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