PANORAMIKA AUSTRALIS:
Drama unfolds in our day and in our immediate presence, every minute and each and every second. Whether it is gently building towards an unanticipated collision or occurance or a moment of poetic coincidence - it is our choice to either acknowledge the moment or ignore it. Mostly we ignore. The mundane will overload our senses.
Yet occasionally the mundane revisited will reveal a simple poetry and rhythm
which after reviewing can be quite beautiful.
Coupled with the beauty of time, place becomes closer to a representation of the Fourth Dimension.
The huge panoramics below are testament to both humble as well as constructed observations pieced together from collisions that didn't quite happen yet compressed by time, actually could have. This is the twist.
So feel the quality and take in the width of the generous panoramas.
IMAGERY:
Bay Pano
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When you climb past the ribbons of bitumen and the signs of man, Tasmania unfolds its gems - surrounded by beautiful inlets and tiny bays of miracles, it's too hard to take one image in, it's a must to view it all...
Meanwhile, across in mainland Australia, somewhere near Broken Hill, 1 km to Whirlie...
There is something zen about the outback of Australia; talk about slow lunches, here we have slow drama.
3000 x 750mm
REDLANDS
Image details: width 4.6 metres x 900mm height
Now absorbed by the planting of a few thousand almond trees, this brilliant red earthen tractor-criss-crossed field was the birthplace of a million potatoes, carefully tended season by season by dedicated potato farmer, Ron Cowie.
WATERHOLE
Image details: width 4.8 metres x 600mm height
Often you pass pastoral dryness where animals congregate, be it beneath solitary trees or muddy waterholes and when you stop to look, the animals race off as if pursued by alien threats.
This huge flock of sheep kept an intent thirst going whilst the 40 photo sequence of the panorama was taken - then one sheep began to run off, creating the wonderful stampede off to the left of scene. The dust and haze of the stampede contrasted wonderfully with the peace of the right.
Waterhole Detail
Waterhole - Detail Left
Waterhole - Detail Right
Waterhole (Full image 1/98th scale)
COLLAGE
Scorched Footballers
Along the many roads to somewhere, billboards pace out the kilometres of the country roads and always they tell you what's up ahead: where to stay, best foods in town, buy this, purchase that: This work was inspired by a picture of the 1932 local football team, its members now long gone, hanging on a wall in the General Store, miles up the road
This picture I found displayed in the next town on the General Store's picture wall. How great would it be to see a billboard displaying "Local culture ahead, 10kms" ? The play between an old dead tree and the old dead players was a balance.
60,000 years
How do you pay homage to a people who have refined and reflected upon their customs for so many thousands of years, which in the swoop of a few years more, has had its autonomy and organisation of stability eradicated by another people who believe they are far more superior simply because they build powerful objects?
We shall see, we shall see.
