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chip off the old block BY LLOYD GORMAN Readers will have probably picked up on the “statues and statutes” theme running through this edition of Irish Scene, its hard to miss and was done for good reasons. Just as we were putting the finishing touches to it to get it ready for the printers, these two totally separate worlds came face to face briefly in an unpredictable confluence of events. Well known Perth criminal lawyer John Rando was putting on a Friday evening alfresco gig with some
Above: Quentin and Jenna-Lee from Ice Sculptures Perth with their polar bear carved from ice. Bottom: The finished sculpture, with “Arrive to Paradise” featuring behind museo mates - collectively the Zucchini Brothers - on Rokeby Road, Subiaco so I headed down with a camera to check it out. You could hear the music and see a bit of a crowd gathered around the source of the melody, a good sign. The players were in fine fettle. I joked with John - who was strapped to an accordion - if he was still ‘practising’ at being a lawyer. Two lawyers enter a court room and your chances of winning are 50/50 he replied. “It’s terrible, you wouldn’t sleep in your bed if there was a 50/50 chance your house was going to burn down,” he said. His amp was weighted down to the trolly with two tomes of Gatley on Libel and Slander (7th edition) and Criminal Procedure, published by Butterworths. But right in front of them another form of entertainment and art was literally taking shape. The shape of a polar bear was emerging from a 140kg solid block of ice, the type you normally only see in movies. Quintin (looking like a fisherman from a deep sea trawler) and Jenna-Lee Smith from Ice Sculptures Perth were carving the distinctive sculpture, which when finished was put on display until it melted away into the night. All the while the directly Continued on page 38
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