August 14, 2003
landscapes
A break from the horrors of war:
Spring Brilliance at Kuaiji, 1977-79By Mu Xin (b. 1927)Ink and Gouache on paper
More on Mu Xin here in these notes for an exhibition held at the Asia Society in Sydney.
The landscape for me, living in the river country in Australia, is this:
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A lament for a once mighty river that has now become little more than an irrigation canal.
The ancient river gums in the Chowilla floodplains that form part of the Murray-Darling river system are dying. They have not had a drink from a natural flood in 11 years.
More here
And this image won the inaugral Waterhouse natural history art prize hosted by the South Australian Museum.
James King “Winter Foliage 12 Oil on Canvas.
From the horrors of war to the despair of ecological disaster... The Murray article is harrowing reading, but the truth we have to face. I hope that the "death event" of over 300,000 ancient trees, for example, can be the catalyst for some sort of revival.
Hard-going but good to read this, Gary.