Hundertwasser (July)

Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s skyline is like turning over a book of black-and-white reproductions – their winter outlines, their washed-out appearances – only to come unexpectedly across a colour section at the back. Golden squares at every window reflect evening sun disclosed for one minute from under thunderclouds shifting from Werribee. For one minute sheets of glass facing the bay are topaz, dandelion, primrose, canary, byzantine, flame. When the book closes (Baskerville font, July print-run) the cover is nightfall and no sign yet of where the thunder will come as instead freezing rain threatens Beaconsfield Parade and The Esplanade with a once-in-one-hundred-years hundred-waters deluge.