“It’s the vibe and, no that’s it, it’s the vibe. I rest my case,” Dennis Denuto famously declared in The Castle.
Last year, at the height of lockdown, I took a legal walk to a skate-bowl in Alexandria. Skate-bowls plural, from dimple to crater, the moonscape set above Alan Davidson Oval in Sydney Park. All cambers and ridges, the place teemed with kids and kidults, grinding and stacking on boards and scooters, tick-tacking for TikTok. I was mesmerised – and intrigued.
A Greek marriage of sorts, the term combines skeuos and morphe . Modern designers apply the tactic often, retaining a moribund flourish to evoke a sense of an installation’s lineage. Flame-shaped bulbs on an electric candelabra. say, honour the mediaeval version, just as lino’s faux-grain suggests a timber finish.
Look at your phone. Its so-called desktop is rife with skeuomorphs, from the art-deco mike denoting voice memos, to the industrial cog of settings. Lost objects translate their new incarnations. While each motif is deliberate, like the jotter-like lines marking your electronic notepad, their effect is subtle. Every tile-trim, every flame-bulb, pays mute witness to the overtaken.Dennis Denuto, the hapless lawyer played by Tiriel Mora in, had a sense of such matters in court.
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