Dee Jefferson

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Dee Jefferson

What’s the most chaotic thing that’s ever happened to you in space? L​aunch – you go from no speed at all to 17,500 miles an hour in under nine minutes. The chaos is spectacular, the power of it is just wild, the physical vibration and force of it is mind-numbing – and it all happens so blisteringly fast. In the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, you go from lying on your back in Florida to being weightless in space.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Dee Jefferson

In the dimly-lit basement of a former furniture store in Hobart CBD, 480 embalmed sheep’s heads in specimen jars are arranged on industrial shelving units: 24 racks, each four shelves high and with five jars per shelf, in a neat grid. The fastidiousness of the presentation sits at odds with the inherent violence of the material; so do the expressions on most of the sheep’s faces, which range from serene to uncanny smiles.

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Dee Jefferson

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3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Dee Jefferson

One evening in June last year, actor Ewen Leslie rocked up at Sydney’s Belvoir St theatre to find out what show he was performing that night and meet his fellow actors for the first time. All he had was an email telling him to prepare his best Werner Herzog impression, to wear comfortable clothes, and to expect content around “childhood, parenthood and mental health disorders”.

4 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Dee Jefferson

At Bankstown Central, Abdul Abdullah has become lost. “Far out, this place is bigger than I thought” he texts while gamely trying to locate me, also lost. “I think I was in the basement.”It’s been three decades since the artist, then nine years old, fell in love with the labyrinthine and luminous shopping centre then known as Bankstown Square.