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Swales are open drains with a permeable surface. They run along the roads that reach from our house to the sea. Water flows to the bay cleansed, evaporates to hydrate breath and seeps down into the groundwater where searching roots linger.
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Notes
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‘Echidna on swales’ (gouache and watercolor on paper, 2016), by Edith Maree Crinall Rowbottom, is published with permission.
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Bodyplaceblogposts are largely published without editing. See ‘A Note’ section for more information.
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A sketch made on Lawson Street swales with Prue (gouache on paper 2016), Sarah Crinall.
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Western Port Unknown iv unfinished (oil on canvas, ~2011), Robyn Carter, is published here with permission.
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This painting is of Lawson Street swales (gouache on paper, 2016) and painted by Prudence Clements, published with permission.
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The painting ‘Echidna’ in production, Edith Maree Crinall Rowbottom, published with permission.
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This aspect of writing formed during involvement in the Naming the World research collective. See with Gratitude for more information.
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View this film at Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/199278635
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See also Crinall and Somerville, 2018.
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‘Untitled’ Three everyday sketches (watercolour on paper, 2017), Vivi Mae Crinall Rowbottom. Published with permission.
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A snapshot of Edith on sand, Cleeland Bight, Phillip Island, 2014, Sarah Crinall.
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Crinall, S. (2019). Lawson Street Swale Painting, Home. In: Sustaining Childhood Natures. Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3007-0_6
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