Circling high and riding air currents these wheeling birds travel freely above broken terrain. Airborne, they rise above a land based sense of sliding toward the deep abyss. Juxtaposed against the gravity-bound difficulties below they suggest a lighter, unfettered reality.
Acrylic pigment on silk, wool filled, hand stitched, mounted and framed
1190mm x 720mm
2006
Photograph: Geoff Ambler
Private collection, Australia
27 September 2006