The exhibition comprises several series, the most striking of which is the 'Cloud' series from which the cow image comes. That one is made up of ten large digitally manipulated photos, each depicting something in the foreground, apparently suspended in the air, against a very bright blue sky: as far as I can remember, the back of a stone angel, a bird, a bible, a bright red boomerang, a detail of the bird's wing, the angel's wing, a feather, a cow, a locust. The various items obviously comment on each other in various ways - connections and juxtapositions between Christianity, Aboriginal culture and their intersections in Australia especially (different symbols of spirituality and religion, the various iconographies of flight and connectedness with the land and otherwise) - and the images are strikingly lush and their colours very Australian.
(w/ Laura)
