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:: CATEGORIES :: > Small Imprints [Click image for a larger version.] Thunderbolts Way Boxed Postcards by David Gray by David Gray We arrange to meet out near the air-strip, where the tarmac fades into dust. Thunderbolt’s Way. It’s where the dreams are born, where the story begins. It’s warm and still, it feels exactly how you’d imagine such a place should feel, equidistant between the city’s flesh-warm concrete and the chilled midnight air of the rusted interior. He tells us how he dreams the names of horses: Herb’s Pal, Mystic Falcon, Hope Street - last night it was Savannah Air in the 2.15 at Moonee Valley. They don’t always win, he says, but it must mean something. His wife has left him. He lives in a weather-board house that smells of stale smoke and new carpets.- from the text accompanying Thunderbolts Way by Paul Summers Thunderbolts Way is yet another example of David Gray freely yet inquisitively collecting imagery to form a visual narrative from a time in a space. The reader is yet again invited to enjoy the process of making or following the threads, connections and coincidences out of a succession of human and aesthetic photographs. Thunderbolts Way is both real and imagined. It straddles the last few kilometres of the habitable interior of New South Wales, a place where soft tarmac dives for cover under the hot tundra of red dust and parched grass. Where global capital meets the Kelly gang legend, where Melbourne Cup winners are bred and a gambler’s dreams begin. And what does it conjure? Thunderbolts Way is Australia. At least one peculiar glimpse of it. These images where compiled in December 2005; easy days driving and looking; experiencing the uniqueness of another place. The work is compiled without preconception or fixed opinion, edited to conjure the ambience of the space; built instinctively and naturally on the back of day to day decisions and a ’wherever the road leads’ outlook. For more information, visit the Thunderbolts Way website. Price: £10.00 Enter the appropriate quantity you wish to buy below, then click the 'Add To Cart' button to place this item in your shopping cart. * - Denotes a required field. Quantity *

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