I tried to find something with more design in it but I couldn't. This image just kept nagging at me until I put it here.
I have been in the outback not too long ago and this image just reminded me of the desolate expanse out there. The road extends forever past the horizon and the vegetation never gets more than about a foot high. The car has two tanks, either for water or petrol - a lot of storage needed with nowhere to replenish. No sign of civilisation is shown - the path ahead is unsealed and only sustained by the laying of tracks by each person that has driven along it - apart from the car and the person in it.
When I used to see images like this I used to think it wasn't as bleak as all that. It wasn't until I had seen it for myself that I realised that the horizon doesn't change for hours of driving, and the bleakness captured in images such as that is the bleakness one sees for hundreds of kilometres at a time.
Please if you use an image from an artist you need to cite who is the artist! This happens to be a still from Shaun Gladwells show at the cambelltown Arts Centre. He is a leading contemporary artist in this country. Using an artists images without their permission and not acknowledging the owner is a breach of copyright.
ReplyDeleteBut i am glad you are so up there with recent artwork in this country. And that you can respond to it in such an eloquent way! Does this relate to your final projkect perhaps?
Gianni
2 post per week.... pls