Jeff Guess

Jeff Guess Car Park Crows 1 February 2018 Their eyes are steel sequins fixed with a dark tack gripping down on soft plastic handles of deserted supermarket trolleys. Sitting out of chrome cages preying on what’s remained as rubbish, the gun-metal gaze waits for something to click. They hold in their stare a whole expanse of black asphalt beneath which nothing pulses: dead earth. They will not shift for busy shoppers, and know what ancient rules can now be ignored

Dead Man's Pass, Gawler, South Australia. An original painting by Colonel William Light. The Para about 25 miles north of Adelaide. The special survey party stopped here on January 13th 1839. Para Pass [ford] or Dead Man's Pass named for a runaway sailor who starved to death and whose body was walled up in the big tree left but wild dogs got to it. ©Jeff Guess 2018