Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Exiles

Bomen is a small industrial area in southern rural NSW.
As the train passes through Bomen, one sometimes sees shipping containers.

It is enjoyably surreal to see them, stamped Hamburg, Zeebrugge, Rotterdam, Bremen: so far from home, forlornly waiting in apparently empty, dry paddocks that roll away into distant hills.
They look lost: more like unhappy exiles than like immigrants or refugees.

2 comments:

blue milk said...

I love this image.

Frances said...

The scene is very beguiling, blue milk. How nice to see you here: I do enjoy your blog.