The food is laid out, ready to eat, but everyone’s waiting for someone else to make the first move.
This photo was taken at the close of the Marrickville Contemporary Art Prize exhibition on Sunday. Eventually the woman in the blue top sliced into the cheese — and suddenly the spell was broken!
’Pong tells me that in Thai, the very last piece on a plate is called “the polite piece” — the piece everyone is too polite to take.
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27 September 2007 at 12:56 pm
'Pong
A back yard full of artist with plates of nipplings. Gas them, I say!
27 September 2007 at 1:17 pm
Stilgherrian
@’Pong: Geez, a bit harsh! Still, I think you mean “nibblings”. “Nipplings” would be something else, I think.