Bending Banality

Every year Vivid Sydney arrives with a bang of colours and electrifying fireworks, bringing a brush of vibrance to the gloom of wet chilly onset of winter. My spouse is an ardent proponent of what the annual event proffers - a stage for engagement, entertainment, and efficaciousness of it in boosting small businesses. He clearly wouldn't want to miss any of it leaving us with no other options but to follow reluctantly. Once at the spot, however, we often find ourselves enjoying and absorbing the sparkling vibes enfolding hundres of fellow spectators. 

This year was no exception. As I grudgingly followed him to a cluster of installations at Barangaroo on our way home after a long day at Kent Street office, I admired his skills in capturing the light sculptures that otherwise looked quite insipid. 

But it was this serendipitous frame of my silhouette before the magical, mesmerising blue in black that stole my heart. There was a long queue to digitally immortalise a moment in the romantic swing, the installation creatively featured. While all the attention gravitated to the swing-side, we slid to the rotating back to grab a few photos with the mystic moon. That's when it instantaneously and instinctively struck me to take my coat and slippers off to fold to this easy elegant pose creating an interesting silhouette. Why go for a mundane capture when you can bend the banality?

My heartfelt thanks to my spouse for enduring and encouraging my eccentricity, accommodating my idiosyncratic ideas! Needless to mention, the credit goes to the eye of the beholder, my spouse, in managing this frame with the limited time and space the installation podium offered!

Dona, Sydney, May '25