At one end of a huge display area, hosting a 44m snake composed of 1620 individual art pieces created by Sidney Nolan, is a round table inviting any person to have a seat. Why do that? To take part in a joint project exploring quietness of the mind and concentration on a given task. The task is to count grains of rice, one at a time, in order to produce a small mound which can be added to the overall count for the project. No talking or interactions are permitted.
@ludwigsdiana Hi Diana - It was all very serious and closely supervised to prevent distractions. I'm not quite sure what they do with the small piles, but I felt that they were all being amalgamated into an overall pile for which there would then be a definite counted number of grains? Who knows what they would then do with that?! MONA is very offbeat! Cheers Rob :)
Hi Jackie - I didn't actually have time to get involved with the counting - there's so much to see that we missed bits - even after approx 5 hours of investigating.
And as far as Covid goes - Tasmania has been very lucky - they closed their border to all other states very early in the piece, after a bit of a fiasco with a cruise boat resulted in a lot of cases which were very difficult to bring under control. They have now only opened them to people from states which have had no locally acquired Covid cases for 28 days.(I think that's the magic number a lot of the states use) There are still a few international flights to bring Aussies home from other countries - but they all have to undergo 2 weeks quarantine in a police supervised hotel, with no allowance for them to leave their room until they have a negative test at the end of the 2 weeks.
It's been a pretty draconian regime - but the results have been that most states now have only the very occasional locally acquired case and the contacts from that person are all traced and placed into quarantine.
We are so grateful to the way all of our state and federal leaders and health officials have handled it. We've all got our fingers crossed that the new, mutated form can be kept in check - if that's possible!
I really hope that the roll out of your vaccines starts to make a difference for you and that the situation improves throughout the year. Keep safe and explore your new photographic interests now that you have the time. Retirement's not bad Hey??
Cheers Rob @30pics4jackiesdiamond
@robz Yes there is so much to see and of course many to miss! I know the snake mural was there but perhaps not the table of activities - I'll have to look at my photos again :)
And as far as Covid goes - Tasmania has been very lucky - they closed their border to all other states very early in the piece, after a bit of a fiasco with a cruise boat resulted in a lot of cases which were very difficult to bring under control. They have now only opened them to people from states which have had no locally acquired Covid cases for 28 days.(I think that's the magic number a lot of the states use) There are still a few international flights to bring Aussies home from other countries - but they all have to undergo 2 weeks quarantine in a police supervised hotel, with no allowance for them to leave their room until they have a negative test at the end of the 2 weeks.
It's been a pretty draconian regime - but the results have been that most states now have only the very occasional locally acquired case and the contacts from that person are all traced and placed into quarantine.
We are so grateful to the way all of our state and federal leaders and health officials have handled it. We've all got our fingers crossed that the new, mutated form can be kept in check - if that's possible!
I really hope that the roll out of your vaccines starts to make a difference for you and that the situation improves throughout the year. Keep safe and explore your new photographic interests now that you have the time. Retirement's not bad Hey??
Cheers Rob
@30pics4jackiesdiamond