In 2021 my partner and I managed to get out of Victoria for a camping trip from Adelaide to Darwin and back via the Oodnadatta track. Of course i took small lino blocks, tools, and hand printing gear. The Australian outback is unbelievably beautiful and colourful. I, however, mainly do black and white lino prints. I needed to describe the landscape with my own visual language. Whether i succeeded or not, i don’t know, but i like to think that artists seeing the world through their own art form, is a valuable way of allowing all of us to view the world in another way.
The title of this small series is; ‘Something and Nothingness’, which is an ironic reference to the different way I as a visitor/colonist am able to see the landscape; compared to the way an indigenous person for whom this has been home for thousands of years, and to whom every vista has memory and spirit meaning, sees it.
Which bits are something? Which bits are nothing?
A truly terrific post. Thank you!
I’m jealous. I thought getting to my studio was pretty good but being able to travel and print is even better Thanks for sharing
Thank you for this fabulous post!