Special Monographic Issue. When “Time Stands Still”: Remembering Pamela Dahl-Helm Johnston, Australian Artist and Academic.

Abstract

My imagery is about those precious moments between life and death when we only have now … maybe a few weeks … maybe a few minutes. It’s like a leaf or a feather floating by. We can never quite hold it. Just flutter it for a while, then, it inevitably falls. Yet, how precious are those few moments we have. With the awareness comes the possibility that for the minimal time the feather or the leaf floats by, we can be as still as we can possibly be. For that millisecond we are sublime …

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• Pam Dahl-Helm Johnston