When I saw this one hanging in the gallery space I immediately thought of the Bondi Icebergs.
But it also reminded me of lanes and ropes at chlorine pools.
Valley Baths, Brisbane. |
Lines and stripes are everywhere at pools.
Splashed across an entrance.
Cooma Pool |
In the design of buildings.
In the towels that hang around the edges of the water.
Bondi Icebergs Pool |
And rest on rocks and concrete waiting for their owners to emerge from the pool.
Wylie's Baths, Coogee |
They're on boardwalks and grandstands.
Moree Artesian Baths |
And on seating and stairs.
Wylie's Baths, Coogee |
On the doors of change rooms like these multi-coloured stripes at the Annette Kellerman Pool.
Sometimes they are fleeting like the shadows that fall on surfaces around a pool.
Northbridge Baths |
Or in the colours reflecting lines in the water in the pool.
Spring Hill Baths, Brisbane |
And occasionally they form naturally in the underwater beauty of an ocean pool.
Wylie's Baths |