Like a God you bring into being another world as seen through your own eyes. It might be on a canvas in a studio or out somewhere in a field or the bush. A blank canvas has rough sketch marks laced into its skin and the broad swathes of sediment are deployed, that will lie [...]

Bronco, a horse that is untamed , that needs to be broken an reined in,. Bronco , the Australian version – a Brumby- a rough wild bush horse, sweeping in herds across the plains of the Kosiuzsco National park, the snow capped tallest mountain in Australia.  The wild bush horses, Banjo Patterson writing about them [...]

Short hair, buzzcuts so sharp you could slice a loaf. Green dungarees, oversize pockets, walking the parade ground with the megaphone sergeant major yelling at hurricane force. Legs pumping up and down. Endless drills , rifles , bayonets, clean your bed, check your locker, wipe for dust , any speck might mean a twenty kilometer [...]

Rock star, pop star, ‘holiday’, ‘material girl’ ,mother of Jesus – loaded like a six gun, slung down the side of her hip waiting to blow you off – our Madonna – is it a bastardisation, a cleverly thought out strategy to deploy the elements of religiousity to evoke Sympathy – Madonna, an icon, a [...]

Patience is a virtue, jealousy’s a curse and pregnancy’s worse- according to my high school recollections. For some reason  I see patience being smeared all over a problem, like axle grease or butter on hot toast. A knife dips into a yellow container and a big glob of it comes out on the end of [...]

Millions of years ago great plumes of ash and orangey gluggy molten stuff was pouring over the landscape like semi solid Jelly, the Earth being singed and scorched, shrivelling up  like a flower on a hot day. Over the lip of the Marr it came, an orange glowing river, lighting up the night sky, bubbling [...]

Russians, the United States, China. Super heroes- kryptonite, flame on – Meetings to limit the amount of M.A.D. [mutually assured destruction] that would take place, the cold war, spy novels by Len Deighton, people being arrested and detained and interogated in small rooms with bare electric bulbs hanging from a roof. Truth serums, truth drugs. [...]

A world map in black and white, gleaming and shining in Briney oblivion. Not something to be stuffed and mounted; too big. A blowhole atop a head speaking air, rows of perfect teeth fed by a diet of high protein fish, strictly Lo-Carb this animal No seaweed munching vegetarian. The water may be cold as [...]

Nameless heads on nameless walls so Don eloquently put it. Oversized canvasses adorn plain walls in varnished memory of the past. Cracked fading desert lake surfaces yellowed with age and smoke and weariness of hanging for so long. But a picture is told not just in the portrait but in the scene behind the scene, [...]

Cruise control sorts out multitudes of sins. Just push that button in the middle of the steering wheel and you’re locked in, the engine surging and declining with the rise and fall of the road, the long stretches of nothingness between places is filled with the yawn of the radio or the Personal development guru [...]