Position Doubtful: Mapping landscapes and memories
Scribe $29.99 pb, 336 pp, 9781925321685
Memoir
Position Doubtful: Mapping landscapes and memories by Kim Mahood
by Michael Winkler •
At the bottom of one of Kim Mahood's desert watercolours, she scrawled, 'In the gap between two ways of seeing, the risk is that you see nothing clearly.' A risk for some, but not Mahood. Her work as a visual artist and writer attests to an eye that is unfailing and a lifetime of looking. The subtle gradations and veristic detail of Position Doubtful attest to sustained attentive observation.
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