Tag: Creativity
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Tree shapes, Mt Timbertop
On the ridge of Mt Timbertop in the Howqua Hills, Victoria, there stands the skeleton of a venerable snowgum. I paid homage to its life by photographing the ‘sky patterns’ where once a solid limb branched, and bringing to life a grey ghoul, a Halloween mask, perhaps even a human face.
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A tribute to Singer sewing machines
My sister, an artist who works with fabric, loves the gentle click, click, click of her hand operated Singer, a no nonsense unembellished model, still stitching after eighty years of use. Her recent acquisition, bought from an avid collector and fellow artist, sits on a Singer Treadle table that she already had. Enshrined the corner…
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Abstract cave faces
Pareidolia is the perception of a recognisable image or meaningful pattern where none exists or is intended. We humans, seem to have an innate tendency to make pictures – particularly of human faces – from random elements. These marks on the wall of the limestone cave wall located in the Cutta Cutta Caves nature Park 30km…
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Travelers’ termite fad
Why would anyone put a T-shirt on a termite mound, I wondered? Richard our aboriginal guide at the Cutta Cutta caves, without offering an opinion on this anthropomorphic practice flourishing along the Stuart Highway, explained that it was the latest tourist fad. Being of an artistic bent I photographed a particularly appealing “family group” relaxing…
ART by Jude Tulloch 