Original Painting | Wodonga | Crossing: 1.7 | 120 x 120 cm Framing Option:White Oak Floating Framed (+3cm) (5.5cm depth) Something in the landscape was

Something in the landscape was fighting — not the water against the rock but something underneath both of them

An oversize portrait painting of rich Australian landscape — eucalyptus

The collage edges are crisp against the softer

For a long time I mistook the mirror for life

This is about my childhood

Original Painting | Wodonga | Crossing: 1.7 | 120 x 120 cm Framing Option:White Oak Floating Framed (+3cm) (5.5cm depth) Something in the landscape wasTitle: Wodonga Paradox: Peace can feel like completion, before depth has begun. The Story I painted this in a steady state untouched, not yet tested, not yet deepened. There was a serenity to it that held its own value, the kind that arrives when one round of life finishes and you do not yet know there is another. I kept the palette knife loose so the surface could breathe. Underneath the calm sat the question: is this peace real, or only the quiet