In a Perfect World

Over the past 12 months or so, many Australians have been burdened by the full range of nature’s destructive capability. We have all been confronted by scenes of tragedy and desolation. Between fire, flood and drought, those who live on and cherish the land have had their health tested financially, socially and mentally.

I have chosen to look forward to better times and represent how perfect our land can look when nature re-emerges into what might be called a Perfect World.

I have used Australian Poet Dorothea Mackellar’s “My Country” as my compass with particular guidance from her words “…for flood and fire and famine she pays us back threefold…..”. I sought to capture her “sapphire-misted mountains”, “the filmy veil of greenness that thickens as we gaze” and “the green tangle of the brushes”. I then interlaced my own dreams of what our country might look like in a Perfect World.