Joe's Black Dog

Joe's Black Dog
Joe's Black Dog by Marjorie Weiss

23 February 2015

The unconventional David Walsh

Reflection MONA by Tracey Croke, Flicker creative commons
'I feel fear ... it's very rational that I feel fear in terms of a biological response. It makes sense to have built into me something that makes me fear death ... The sheer fact that I can face death is a huge privilege ... the chance of me being here is astronomical ... I had to go through incredibly fortuitous process to have the opportunity to contemplate death ... so I hope that I'm rational enough that  every time I think - soon I'll be dead -  I think, but right now I'm well and truly alive. That's the great privilege of facing death, having the opportunity to contemplate it in the first place ... '

November 2014, David Walsh, founder of Museum of Old and New Art.
Interviewed by Phillip Adams at Sydney Writers' Festival
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/public-forum-with-david-walsh-and-phillip-adams/5960560