Colonial Reminders

This image is the 2nd in a series I was working on photographing rural south-east Queensland referencing such painters such as John Glover (1767-1849) and other early colonial Australian painters. This image conjures up thoughts of desolation and loneliness and the harsh realities of living in the country or the ‘bush’. Ghostly images of what appear to be peoples and animals long since gone appear through the image allowing the viewer to pause for thought and consider what life must have been like for those who lived in this day to day reality.