In his face, a range of possibilities between heartbreak and joy. I’m itching to go and see my grandchildren.
I look through a high window at the cold, pale sky, distracted. “She was trying to find her dad,” he says. It was from a young woman, he says, who thought he might have known her mother years before, when she was a teenager. My son puts a glass of something sparkly in front of me and tells me about the Facebook message he’d received just weeks before. Though – looking back – those carpets, the pallid colours of walls and bench seats, are now tinged bright with prospect and surprise. It’s an unlikely backdrop for drama or pathos, for announcements that might split open a life. Prosaic carpets and dull surfaces that give nothing away. This one is no different to other airport bars. Usually, when I fly in from Brisbane, my son takes my hand and my luggage and drives me straight to Rangiora. In this big, bold and hauntingly beautiful portrait of art and life, Shell captures a world on the brink of seismic change through the eyes of two unforgettable characters caught in the eye of the storm.Īnd reminds us why taking a side matters.The bar at Christchurch Airport, three months earlier. Axel Lindquist, a visionary young glass artist from Sweden, is obsessed with creating a unique work that will do justice to Utzon’s towering masterpiece. Journalist Pearl Keogh, exiled to the women’s pages after being photographed at an anti-war protest, is desperate to find her two missing brothers and save them from the draft. In 1965 as Danish architect Jørn Utzon’s striking vision for the Sydney Opera House transforms the skyline and unleashes a storm of controversy, the shadow of the Vietnam War and a deadly lottery threaten to tear the country apart. It held the shape of the possible, of a promise made and waiting to be kept … The drama of harbour and horizon, and at night, the star-clotted sky.
A big, bold and hauntingly beautiful story that captures a defining moment in Australia's history.Įverywhere he looked he saw what Utzon saw.
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