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Tripping over the Australian Dream 2018 #invasio

Tripping over the Australian Dream

2018

#invasionday #australiaday #australianart #australia #weliveitsostopfindingexcuses #art #artist #nomurdoch #noracism #putthesufferingofothersbeforeyourpride

Next time I'll come back in my van instead, and ta

Next time I'll come back in my van instead, and take this road. Then stop and walk until I cant see it either anymore.

Just want to go and sit way out there for 2 days - alone.

It's what this place seems to ask.

.. 🤔 Mind the snakes.

#hayplain #australia #artist #roadtripaustralia #travel #vastlandscape
#ruralnsw

Healthy social distancing #road #socialdistancing

Healthy social distancing

#road #socialdistancing #lexus #roadtrip #roadtripaustralia #openspaces #nsw #hybrid

The road back from Radelaide to Sydney #radelaide

The road back from Radelaide to Sydney

#radelaide #hayplain #australia #roadtrip #roadtripaustralia #lexus #nx300h #drive #hybrid

The thought 'studio futures' has been objective, b

The thought 'studio futures' has been objective, back of mind for 6 years of focus to acheive it. Now it seems close to realised. All concepts and sparks are relit and will come to fruition. I will shed and unravel while maintaining foundation. Take the steps - hold the light.

Image - a repost from years ago.. 🤞 Soon to influence work.

#studiofutures #artist #focus #art #unravel #2021 #hope

The thought 'studio futures' has been objective, b

The thought 'studio futures' has been objective, back of mind for 6 years of focus to acheive it. Now it seems close to realised. All concepts and sparks are relit and will come to fruition. I will shed and unravel while maintaining foundation. Take the steps - hold the light.

Image - a repost from years ago.. 🤞 Soon to influence work.

#studiofutures #artist #focus #art #unravel #2021 #hope #writing #thoughts #poetry #artista

Reposting these photos from some years ago.. I hav

Reposting these photos from some years ago.. I have been sitting by the sea this week and considering shells again. They say so much.

In weeks where political events seem dire, my thou

In weeks where political events seem dire, my thoughts often turn to this work.
Painting from 2015, of a deceased pigeon I watched float down a canal in Venice in 2000.

It doesnt bring any solice or solution, but my mind still goes to it and thinks about how and why that particular bird died that day.

Our world is but a thin crust
Over molten change ..
We swim on our feet in the fragile soup.

Go ahead, pass a hand across in front,
Feel it's so.

We are each individually capable of flight, Just too distracted on mass,
by each other to figure out how,
And how wonderful to learn why.

#art #pigeon #venice #venezia #death #poet #poetry #poem #poeme #poems #poème #thoughts #writing #endtrump #endfacism #painting #painter #artist

In weeks where political events seem dire, my thou

In weeks where political events seem dire, my thoughts often turn to this work.
Painting from 2015, of a deceased pigeon I watched float down a canal in Venice in 2000.

It doesnt bring any solice or solution, but my mind still goes to it and thinks about how and why that particular bird died that day.

Our world is but a thin crust
Over molten change ..
We swim on our feet in the fragile soup.

Go ahead, pass a hand across in front,
Feel it's so.

We are each individually capable of flight, Just too distracted on mass,
by each other to figure out how,
And how wonderful to learn why.

#art #pigeon #venice #venezia #death #poet #poetry #poem #poeme #poems #poème #thoughts #writing #endtrump #endfacism #painting #painter #artist

In weeks where political events seem dire, my thou

In weeks where political events seem dire, my thoughts often turn to this work.
Painting from 2015, of a deceased pigeon I watched float down a canal in Venice in 2000.
It doesnt bring any solice or solution, but my mind still goes to it and thinks about how and why that particular bird died that day.
Our world is but a thin crust over molten change .. We swim on our feet in the fragile soup. Go ahead, pass a hand across in front, feel it's so. We are each individually capable of flight, just too distracted on mass, by each other to figure out how, and how wonderful to learn why.

#art #pigeon #venice #venezia #death #poet #poetry #poem #poeme #poems #poème #thoughts #writing #endtrump #endfacism #painting #painter #artist

My office this month #henleybeach #designer #henle

My office this month
#henleybeach #designer #henley #artist #henleyartist #southaustralia #oceanview #beachfront #joeskiosk #henleyesplanade #lifesabeach

Berry pickers #strawberry #strawberries #strawberr

Berry pickers
#strawberry #strawberries #strawberrypicking #beerenbergfarm #beerenberg #sa #adelaidehills #southaustralia

A remarkable Arthur Streeton original work I was i

A remarkable Arthur Streeton original work I was in the presence of today. Beautiful.

#streeton #arthurstreeton #beauty #landscape #landscapepainting #australianart #australianartist #art #painting #oilpainting #cove

New Years Resolution 01 #norwood #southaustralia

New Years Resolution 01

#norwood #southaustralia #adelaide #house #home #sunset #nye #newyearsresolution

.. The time between us Travels by forgotten heath.

..
The time between us
Travels by forgotten heath.
Flail your limbs and mine
Up from beneath the earth
And down from feed me sky.
At the crust, tight whipped
and tuck together,
with whale bone string
(its a thing)
Circular yet a mess(age)
to those untrained
or unlived said passage.
Together now we remember
how we lit our roots for branches.

#BB #desert #saltbush #earth #poem #poetry #writing #art #artist #relationships #poet #thestruggle #landscape #thoughts

.. The time between us Travels by forgotten heath.

..
The time between us
Travels by forgotten heath.
Flail your limbs and mine
Up from beneath the earth
And down from feed me sky.
At the crust, tight whipped
and tuck together,
with whale bone string
(its a thing)
Circular yet a mess(age)
to those untrained
or unlived said passage.
Together now we remember
how we lit our roots for branches.

#BB #desert #saltbush #earth #poem #poetry #writing #art #artist #relationships #poet #thestruggle #landscape #thoughts

.. What was reveals its inner strength, where full

..
What was
reveals its inner strength,
where full form
has long departed.

#concretelog #concrete #structure #sculpture #art #formshadow #remnant #landscape #australia

What was reveals its inner strength, where full fo

What was
reveals its inner strength,
where full form
has long departed.

#concretelog #concrete #structure #sculpture #art #formshadow #remnant #landscape #australia #poem #poetry #thoughts

#growlittleones #anotherscaleoftime

#growlittleones #anotherscaleoftime

So much to paint, appreciate and transcend. Time

So much to paint, appreciate and transcend.

Time and space
Time and space

Waiting. Working. Soon.

#saltbush #australia #plantlife #thoughts #painter #artist #artistinwaiting #art #poem #theroots #poet #poetry #writing

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