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Launceston 1998

Introduction

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My story lives in your reading

The despondent soul should look at the sky
and create a little music of its own.

1998 The Saffron Sound of the Pipes for Terra Incognita installation, Gallery101 (1997)
Destroyed

Guided by Tasmanian writer Carmel Bird I tell in this painting what I know and what I feel, and what I want you to know and to feel, that "...The devil can implant deep melancholy in the spirit, and the despondent soul should look at the sky and take a walk and create a little music of its own." Carmel Bird, 1995, The White Garden, p.134.

I read this picture now (in 2022) as a message to accept Art as ephemeral and to hold truth and beauty in relationships. This is one of many that were damaged or destroyed in a fire eight years ago. This fuzzy image is the only record of The Saffron Sound of the Pipes.

1998 Study in pen and ink for Terra Incognita installation, Gallery101 (1997)
Limbo Collection, Tasmania