#504 Smoke haze & embers | Scott McDougall
$8,000.00
Oil on canvas
Height: 60cm. Width: 121cm.
I gave great consideration as to whether to include something living into this scene of devastation where everything has been reduced to stinking smoke haze and bitter ash. I finally chose to include the yellow tailed black cockatoos. The recent bushfires that swept across our wide brown land were traumatic enough without including some glimmer of hope. These particular cockatoos have been flying around our Northern NSW house, calling us, for the last couple of weeks, they obviously wanted to be in my painting ! In Aboriginal dreaming stories, the black cockatoo is said to represent spirit-strengthening, change and herald the coming of rain.
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