Drama unfolds in our day every minute, even every second. Whether it is building an unanticipated collision or occurance or a moment of unravelled coincidence. It is our choice to either acknowledge the moment or ignore it.

Mostly we ignore. The mundane will overload our senses.

Yet the mundane has a simple poetry and rhythm which after analysis can be quite exciting.

These huge panoramics 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.

IMAGERY:

Falls

 

Bay Pano

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Globe World Cup 2004 (Detail)

 

Globe World Cup 2005 - detail

 

Globe World Cup 2005 - detail

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 I took 40 photos of the panorama and by the time one sheep began to run off, created the wonderful stampede off to the left of scene. The dust and haze of the stampede worked beautifully with the peace and involved thirst quenching of the right.

Waterhole Detail

Waterhole - Detail Left

Waterhole - Detail Right

 

Waterhole (Full image 1/98th scale)

ZOOM IMAGERY

Footballers Ahead

- 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 piece was inspired by a picture of the 1932 local football team, its members now long gone.

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 lovely 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.