Much as I love my home country, I always enjoy the ease of public transport in slightly more crowded lands. We easily hopped a train from Ballarat to Melbourne (children ride free during school hours — oops!).
After hurting through the countryside for about 90 minutes the train spat us out at a large public space called Federation Square, a series of public buildings housing, among many attractive spaces, a large collection of modern Australian aboriginal art.
These ‘dream paintings’ typically portray the origin stories of the ancestors, although some modern day artists also use their paintings to continue ancestral stories of music, rock art and body art.
The work is typically painted on the floor and some of the work was displayed horizontally — a different perspective for sure.
The paintings are often aerial views of an area. At the entrance to the gallery was a series of slides of paintings and aerial landscape shots. Sme of them were shown in a transparent overlay — the accuracy was remarkable!
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A pair of elderly ladies on the gallery’s top floor didn’t seem too happy to hear us chatting about the art in such enthusiastic tones.
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So we gave them their own space.
Cranky old ducks.
You got me! Good one. G
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Glad to see that you’ve made it to your next destination. I was beginning to wonder where you were. The cranky old ladies just creep me out!
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Some wonderful stuff there.
Those ladies are something else.
Mary
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Beautiful photos, Lois. Really beautiful.
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That means a lot coming from you, BenG. You gave me my first photography lesson!
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