A few weeks ago whilst in Melbourne I went on a little road trip to Daylesford with my girlfriend, Wei Yi. Escaping out of the city, we set our friendly GPS navigator and headed north west. As our surroundings changed from high rises to houses to wide open spaces, we breathed in deep the country air.
We lunched at the Lake House, which was a lovely bright and airy restaurant beside Lake Daylesford. Kookaburras eagerly waited for their raw steak fillet lunch on the deck. The waitstaff feed them regularly every day!
I highly recommend lunching at the Lake House. The service is faultless and the food is simply divine. Most of the produce is local, sourced from the Macedon/Daylesford region. The dessert tasting plate pushed us near to the edge, but it was heavenly.
"One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams." - Salvador Dali
I have a penchant for Surrealist art and particularly the way in which the definite line between dreams and reality is blurred.
I remember studying Surrealism at school and deconstructing Salvador Dali's melting clocks. In 2006 I visited the Tate Modern in London and viewed Surrealism: Desire Unbound. My favourite exhibit was the Lobster Telephone - it's bizarre, it has sexual connotations and...it's a lobster!
The Lobster Telephone is one of the surrealist artworks in Liquid Desires at NGV.
Liquid Desires looks at Dali's body of work spanning his entire career. I was amazed by his artistic diversity - film, television, advertising, fashion design, theory, photography, publishing and his exploration of new ideas and mediums.
I would've loved to have seen more "clocks" in Liquid Desires, but perhaps I'll come across them in another Dali exhibition somewhere else in the world. Adding to the list of things that I must do in my lifetime - see The Royal Heart at the Salvador Dali Museum in Figueras, Spain.
Whilst checking out some of Lisa Mitchell's music videos I came across this older song called Incomplete Lullaby which feels like a summary of how I feel at this very moment in time.
Mitchell's debut album "Wonder" was released on Friday and her songs have had a lot of JJJ airplay. I remember Mitchell from the Australian Idol days where she and Dean Geyer shared the stage, took songs and made them their own and experienced their own personal Idol journey with a montage to prove it. She's a lot more mature now, but still has this innocent aura that surrounds her and her music. She seems so delicate and her voice doesn't have a massive range. I suppose that's the appeal of her music, it's utterly charming and puts you into daydream mode where girls wear pretty floral dresses and boys wear bowler hats. Mitchell is a really talented songwriter and her lyrics are sublime.
A 24 year old writer who suffers from a serious case of wanderlust. Believes that no matter what your budget is, you can always travel in style. Forever in search of the next adventure...
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