Following on from the previous post with it's essay first paragraph by MB, headed For those who know how to look, today it's the first paragraph of John Wolseley's essay of introduction to his forthcoming
exhibition at Australia Galleries, Melbourne.
When the full essay becomes available online next week, we'll provide a link to it here.
BEETLES IN THE SALT – LAKE TYRRELL 2014-18
watercolour and etching on paper, 130cm x 220cm, AG11129
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When the full essay becomes available online next week, we'll provide a link to it here.
JOHN
WOLSELEY
The Life of Inland Waters
EXHIBITION ESSAY
As a small boy, I was inordinately interested in insects, animals
and reptiles. At the age of six, I spent so many hours watching lizards on a
decayed walnut stump that my father contacted a child psychologist. I never
knew what he reported but whatever it was it cannot have been helped by my
saying that I didn’t much like being human, and very much desired to become a
lizard. As I grew up, I became more and more interested in trying to look at
the world through the eyes of creatures other than myself, and was helped in
this by a series of obsessions with certain writers and philosophers. This
included Basho who wrote, From the pine tree, learn of the pine; And from
the bamboo, learn of the bamboo.
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watercolour and etching on paper, 130cm x 220cm, AG11129
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