The original image was an amalgamation of several photographs from above the Australian landscape taken over a period of 2-3 minutes (approximately 50 kilometres on the ground) … a series of rivers fanned out over a vast area to become huge mud flats … exquisite lines and contours and textures that demanded far more than a ‘straight’ pictorial representation.
Hours of playing and maneuvering and tweaking and colouring-in and a beautiful figure began to emerge from the landscape … sleeping angel is how I originally saw her… then as I pondered, imaginative rememberings of Tennyson’s poem ‘The Lady of Shalott’ came flooding in … the tower, the window, the mirror, the boat and the river, and that ill-fated lady who chose her own death in order to follow the callings of true love rather than continuing to live an empty life limited to the reflected world … such are the images I delight in discovering within this powerful image.
The completed image haunts me still as I find more and more connections between the created image and the wonderful story of that mystical lady of King Arthur’s court.
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