Elias Greig
The Whale Ghosts
In Sydney’s wealthiest suburb and erstwhile site of Archibald Mosman’s whaling station, Elias Greig finds himself haunted by the hulking bodies of whales.
In that epic butchery, what airs and fluids were released to seep into the land and water of that place? What sobbed from those lungs in which a man could fit, whose breath had weight and could move matter, its voice like a vast limb? What burst from those cuts, those lurid curtains of flesh parted by knives, the skin peeled back in spirals by the flensing spades?