36 Views of Patawarta
            : 1979 -1990

            
A series of thirty six
            prints (etching and photo-zerox) based on field drawings in the
            Flinders Ranges with historical and cultural references that
            was a tribute to Hokusai and Heysen. The use of
            Haiku poetry gave linkages and layers of meaning based as much
            on contrasts as on connections. The final form of the work was
            a wooden box that contained the 36 prints, 36 collected objects
            and a diary/journal on the ideas around each print.

            
'It is possible that
            the play of opposites with the Patawarta series has part of its
            origins in the Ukiyo-e print obsession with mirrors and mirroring.
            In Japanese tradition the mirror was believed to reveal the 'self
            without shame'.

            In retrospect the sparseness and minimalism which characterised
            the imagery of this series had a logic and a role central to
            the subject of the works.'

            
John Neylon The Adelaide Review,
            December 1990
          
        
      

        

          

            


            36 Views of Patawarta : 1979
            -1990


            


            
The final 'Box' with a collection
            of 36 objects
          
        
      





      


      


      


      
36 Views extended series No.1,
      etching and photo xerox on paper, 56 x 76.5 cm, 1990


      
 


      
 


      
 


      
 


      
 


      


      
36 Views extended series No.20,
      etching and photo xerox on paper, 56 x 76.5 cm, 1990


      
 


      
 


      
 


      
 


      
 


      
 


      


      
36 Views extended series No.25,
      etching and photo xerox on paper, 56 x 76.5 cm, 1990


      
 


      
 


      
 


      
 


      
 


      
 


      


      
36 Views extended series No.29,
      etching and photo xerox on paper, 56 x 76.5 cm, 1990


      
 


      
 


      
 


      
 


      
 


      
 


      


      
36 Views extended series No.36,
      etching and photo xerox on paper, 56 x 76.5 cm, 1990


      
 


      


      


      
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