WHAT IS EARTHLAND?

Earthland Monumond Forves 2

[Earthland Monumond Forves] 50 X 60cms

MORPHIC REALISM, SYMBOLISM, SURREALISM.

REALISM= My reality, the places I have visited on my life’s journey.

SYMBOLISM= In nature there are no boarders. all boundaries, nations etc. The names are simply social, political, cultural and spiritual constructs. This helps us as communities around the world, to have connections to each other and the Earth.

It determines how we live, as societies.

Author Benedict Anderson. [Book: Imagined Communities, 1983], defines them as being:

IMAGINED COMMUNITIES.

Even the name Earth fits this ideology, because it is the name used the most today, that identifies the planet that we live on.

SURREALISM= If there are no boarders in nature, but an abundance of variety with in it. The only thing that separates nature is distance, this is what I believe.

So I decided to juxtapose different locations from around the world to create a new reality, The New Earth. and then re-naming these imagined locations of Earthland.

By amalgamating the actual names of those different locations. to become the titles for the work.

Finally the surreal is also my dream state of the places I haven’t been too. but are on my wish list.

All paintings are Acrylic on Plywood Panel, 40.6 X 50.8cms, [Unless specified]

Image Below: Earthland Winkingstan 2023

Finalist in the John Villiers Outback Art Prize. Queensland 2024

Winkingstan