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Spiritual Home
The Land as a Spiritual Home - the land becomes landscape when viewed through western consciousness. In these
works, the horizon is sometimes indeterminate, or sometimes clearly constructed,
and projected onto the land. Are we looking outwards, or are we facing our own
inner immensities? Does this take us beyond ourselves?
In the Midst of Life we are in Death: Body, Mind and Spirit (3 Works)
This suite of three tapestries is based on three works of Australian
literature which address the idea of man and landscape, and land as
spiritual home, or respository of 'truth'. There is a poem by John Thompson
about early explorers into the desert in search of the 'truth' they imagined
it held. Like Patrick White's Voss, the explorers are devoured by the truth
they seek. What is that truth?
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