Piri Eddy
Piri Eddy writes about Matt Huppatz in Neoterica 2024.
Money for Paintings I-III
I. Forest Dreams & Chlorophyll Greens
He dreams of a rainforest.
Hot flushes of damp heat. A song of birds, of insects.
The thick soup of sounds and dripping light,
sky blotted out by a canopy of smooth brown limbs and chlorophyll greens.
Somewhere in that rainforest:
A small brick house in a clearing soaked with sun.
Inside, a kitchen. The tiles are cool slate. Orange morning-glow light tumbles in like circus acts. It warms the side of his face as he sits (in his dreams) and sips (in his dreams) steaming black coffee
as he waits for the world to wake.
The tsst tsst of house music
on the radio above the sink.
In his studio at the back of the house,
there is a view of the clearing with the forest at its edge. The thick mass teems with heat and life.
He sits (in his dreams) at a table and he paints.
II. Art-Holes
What is an art-hole?
A space between.
An outside to an inside. Or an inside to an outside.
An opening
for words as vib(e)rations
for language made liquid
to travel through
out and out
and into the world.
An inter
dimensional
link.
A here to a there.
So then.
Step through.
Into this dream.
This vib(e)ration.
Or…
III. Maximize Your Life
DREAMING OF A BETTER LIFE?
WANT MORE OUT OF YOUR EVERY DAY?
THEN GET
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MAXIMIZE YOUR LIFE
AND STEP TOWARDS THE REAL YOU!
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TO START YOUR JOURNEY
TODAY!
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AND OTHER MALADIES.
A PAINTING OF A GIBBON PLAYING BACKGAMMON
UNDER DURESS.
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ONLY ONE OWNER.
FEMALE.
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OF BEAGLES EATING FASCIST
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ONCE THEY’RE GONE
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Piri Eddy is an award-winning playwright, writer, and screenwriter living and working on Kaurna land. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in such places as The Saturday Paper, Island Magazine, and Westerly Magazine. He has written arts criticism and reviews for Australian Book Review and CityMag. He won the Jill Blewett Playwrights' Award at the 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature for his play Forgiveness, which was published by PlayLab Theatre in 2022. His short film The Last Elephant on Earth won an AWGIE at 54th Annual AWG AWGIE awards. Piri was a writer-in-residence at The Mill in 2022 and has previously been an emerging writer-in-residence at Writers SA.