'In the hypercognitive western society, where intellect and reason are prized over love and relational connections, the fear of loss of cognition drives our response to dementia...'
“She does not represent her lover; she presents her lover at the threshold of appearing and fading away. Painting lets her see—and show—this sacred threshold that opens all presence.”
'The choice of colours, the thickness and length of the wool all work together to create possibilities within the highly structured grid of the canvas backing. There was a sense in which the relationship between these limitations and possibilities...
When reading this painting you will discover key ideas to understanding Aboriginality or the Aboriginal way of seeing, what you may call spirituality. It is a vertical slice through the universe or country – sky, water and the earth above and below...
“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art”
Susan Sontag