I remember that spot on the landing at the top of the stairs, where the light didn't reach, a small part of that house you could get afraid of if you thought about it too much, a place that was dark and somehow remote.
The realisation that you are in a very different land comes when you leave the city and hit the dark, smokestack hills and remote villages, where everybody speaks their consonant-cluttered tongue.
While the power requirements of Antarctic research stations are small compared to urban installations on other continents, these case studies clearly demonstrate that if energy efficiency and renewable energy can be deployed widely on the coldest, darkest and most remote continent of the world, their deployment should be more widespread and encouraged on other continents.
"The idea, visually, is to be light skin and dark skin, urban, rural and remote from all different parts of Australia, so there is a balanced visualisation of what Aboriginal women look like," Quilliam tells Guardian Australia on the road from Ntaria to Alice Springs.
Portable energy devices increase the safety of women, girls and children walking in dark or remote areas and can reduce rates of violence.
The abandoned plantations grew dark and dense, especially in remote areas.
It seemed to look back at me, indifferent and serene, through a large eye that looked dark, remote and weary.
Appearing first aloof and remote, "like Garbo in dark glasses and trouser suit", Silja mutated into a "spangled art deco icon, then into a Dietrich-like androgyne in leather", finally forcing us to confront the tortured psyche lying beneath the trappings of glamour.
And he captured it in many moods: dark and somber, misty and romantic, majestic and remote, up close and intimate.
