Shared red and white elements do not necessarily denote significance unless drawn out by a reading.
The Reading.
The white of the apple was applied through eating by a child’s teeth. Having made the ribbon, the apple had lost its appeal and been discarded into the gutter where it drew attention to itself by being so well drawn. It looked like a wheel, ready to roll itself away to the sea.
The cable off-cut, from being peeled revealed red, not white. This was a ribbon laid out, not rolled up. The appeal lay in the prospect of finding a match at the electrical store, the smaller, unpeeled sample was clearly not a match.
Finding a link is to reconcile having moved to Wamboin. The apple was in Balmain. The cable was a Wamboin. I am mending the break between the two places by bringing them together here.