I have used a discarded drawer ( found at the local recycle depot ... ) as the fame to house the story - and the theme for the story is all about my love to explore - to wander - to travel - to put on the skates, grab a map and take off to the unknown ...
The waving open-palmed hand ( sacrificed in this case by a dumped shop mannequin ... ) is a universal symbol for saying good-bye / addio / au revoir / auf wiedersehen / aloha / vale / tangi pai / dober dan / adios - and of course " see you later " ...
... and the wheels are the most widely used method of transport for travelling - apart from our own hoofs of course ...
I love using old and not-so-old maps in my artworks ... in this case, pages from a 1960s atlas found somewhere along the way - probably at one of my weekly visits to the local Witta recycle shop ...
The two sides of the drawer are covered in a woven tapestry - using strips from maps of the USA and Russia ( Soviet ) ... and the many scrolls; large ones lining the back wall and small ones cluttering the floor of the frame, are made up from a map of Australia.
So there you have it - Addio - my final artwork for twenty seventeen. Now the mammoth task ahead of me is to pack up my cluttered Maleny studio ( and my cluttered Maleny house ) into dozens of boxes, that in just a couple of short weeks time will be loaded into a removalist truck and transported 50 kilometres away to my new home in Nambour Heights. There, I will be starting a new and exciting adventure ... so wish me luck as you wave me good-bye ...
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