Julie Machado, Southern Summer (LANDSCAPE 2026)

After sunset, as people and noise recede, a familiar Coromandel landscape is transformed beneath bright stars and faint airglow. From Matariki (the Pleiades) to Orion and the Gum Nebula, the scene reveals a rarely observed side of the land after dark.

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