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Physical Journeys

“It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.” – Ursula K. LeGuin.
A journey, in essence, is a travelling from one place to another, or, more broadly, a passage or progress from one stage to another. Whether it is the journey or the arrival that is more difficult is irrelevant. It is how the journeyer reacts to his or her travels; how he or she chooses deal with the journey; and what the traveller achieves from his or her passage or progress that is vital to the study of physical journeys. Peter Skrzynecki’s Immigrant Chronicles, and the films Finding Nemo (2003), directed by Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich and Cast Away (2000), directed by Robert Zemeckis, each explore the concept of journeys using a range of techniques. Transformation and personal discovery are central to each text, and this demonstrates that both the journey and the arrival can be difficult in their own ways.

Skrzynecki’s poem Crossing the Red Sea......


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