Self Portraits
Left: Natural Pigments, pastel and acrylic on callico. My body is a map written on with the surgeon's scalpel. Scarred, marked like the clay pans of Minnippi park from which the ochres came. Above right: Acrylic on callico. My body works on iron in the form of haemoglobin. It is rusting with age. I have left marks on the land; the land has left marks on me. We are mark makers. Ashes,to ashes; rust to dust, like the burnt land of Minnippi park after a bad bushfire has passed through it. Right: Self Portrait in Rust, 4. Random rust marks reflect the traces and marks of weathering on metal. Left: Acrylic on callico. Portrait in rust, 3. Rust can be red, orange or pink. So human, so Australian...so me. I have found it very difficult to position comments to any specific image on this blog page; just like life, I suppose. However, it was just as difficult to differentiate comments for each of these images, combination of acrylic base, natural pigments, pastels and acrylic paints on call...