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The Palmer Landscape is worth restoring and then preserving, or at least a percentage of It, to know what it was once like, you need to spend some time there to appreciate it, as with a lot of Australia. A relationship does not develop In a one night stand. This is not an Australian beach experience, where you can be blown away in one day by the sensual experience of water, light and smell. This is a longer term, more demanding, but in the end the silent stones will speak.
This is a magnificent environment to place sculpture in, big skys, large horizons, open areas, dramatic escarpments, a strong Australian sense of place where a reciprocal dialogue con take place between the sculpture and the landscape. It is a place with both a significant Aboriginal and European history associated with the land. As an Australian sculptor this too attracts me. It is also on the edge, a cusp, the last hills before the extensive Murray Flats. - again sculpturally this attracts me.
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