I am fortunate to be ‘home-full’ - I have many homes around the world I am welcome. And I have lived in quite a few places…

As such concepts of ‘home’ are sometimes a bit abstract for me…Home can be where I am, where my family and friends are, where someone or something I love is. Indeed it may not even be a place at all…

And yet, some images and colours catch me and take back to my birth home - to Sydney. To Australia.

Ocean hitting a cliff face. Red and orange earth against a small rolling green plain. A semi-circular bridge. A taste. A laugh. An image. A word.

Oucha. And Eternity.

 Oucha (c) Bruno Dutot*

Eternity Arhur Stace (c) Trevor Dallen, Fairfax Photos **

-More on his Story

My Story intersecting with Oucha and Eternity:

Oucha- I passed Oucha’s graffiti image almost daily growing up and enjoyed the changes she went through thanks to Bruno’s continous update and care…And his little studio sat near one of my favourite coffee haunts…Her image makes me smile, and think…

Eternity- I didn’t know about Eternity until the late 80’s - early 90’s - long after Stace had sadly passed. I found out about "eternity" by accident when I mentioned liking seeing it chalked on pavement around different parts of the city to my father and his friend Sam. Someone/some people had rivived his art then…I believe they still do, now. I still remember Sam saying how even though Stace was a homeless man, thousands of people had been touched by his word…A few years later, Sydney’s infamous New Year fireworks referenced Stace in 1991- concluding with Eternity on the Harbour Bridge.

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