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...main street menzies these days, drive past the graceful Western Australian gold-rush town's lone pub and petrol station, and travel 50 km west along a gravel road to Lake Ballard. It's here, on a 70 sq. km lake dried to a shimmering salt plain, that Menzies shire president Kath Finlayson likes to meet and greet her townsfolk. To an outsider, the 49 metal sculptures appear almost extraterrestrial, with their pointy heads and pixie feet. But to a Menziesite, each is uniquely human. "This is one of the tribal elders," says Finlayson, 56, by way of introduction...
...doesn't take long to get to the point in remote Australia (Lake Ballard is about 800 km east of Perth and about the same distance again to the South Australian border). And paring back to the essence of things was the whole aim of Antony Gormley's $A500,000 Inside Australia sculpture project. For the 2003 Perth International Arts Festival, the Englishman digitally scanned each able-bodied citizen of Menzies (about 130 of them at the time), tweaked their dimensions on a computer screen, and cast their skeletal cores in a mix of stainless steel and trace elements found...
...Often they were in the process of getting somewhere else. Such was the case with Gormley himself, who had pretty much settled on Lake Deborah to the west before, at the last minute, Lake Ballard's unique conical-shaped hill caught his eye. Chance intervened, too, with Baltimore-born prospector Leslie Robert Menzie. While surveying a potential mine site near Ninety Mile in 1894 - two years after Bayley and Ford struck gold in Coolgardie, 150 km to the south - he and his party ran out of water. "We followed the line of the reef to the top of the rise...
...year, with Christopher Morris taking second place. Michele Stephenson and MaryAnne Golon won first place in several picture-editing competitions; Hillary Raskin and Alice Gabriner were also recognized. In the American Photography awards, TIME won 11 prizes, with Nachtwey, Kozyrev, Morris, Robert Nickelsberg, Brooks Kraft, Steve Liss and Karen Ballard all singled out for their remarkable work...
...latest presentation of the 18-year-old Jose Mateo’s Ballet Theatre. In it, lead couple Elizabeth Scherban Shinzawa and Parren Ballard take Mateo’s trademark vertical choreography to the next level with even more leaps and lifts. Fri.-Sat. at 8 p.m., Sun. at 4 p.m., and Thurs. at 8 p.m. through October 26, $28; at the Sanctuary Theatre, 400 Harvard St., Cambridge...