2013 Ghosts

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Ghosts is inspired by the physical, psychological and emotional residue that accumulates in the minutiae of our physical surroundings, and grew out of my second residency in Hill End in April, 2011. As the haunting autumn twilight caused the soil to glow red and the ghost gums to gleam, there became a tangible sense of abandoned dreams of fortune and happiness hovering over the town. Once bustling with the prosperity that gold brings, now silent but for the larks calling eerily at sunset and the occasional carouse from the locals at the pub along the road. A hushed stillness descends like a parachute gliding to the ground...

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