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The Last Great Journey - ORIGINAL PAINTING

The Last Great Journey - ORIGINAL PAINTING

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Original artwork 

150cm x 120cm 

Acrylic on canvas 

The Last Great Journey

When I was 19 I drove across Australia from Sydney to Perth with my dad. He was a truck driver and needed an offsider for this long trip.
I jumped at it.
Being in the truck was nothing new to me. I’d been all over the place with him over the years, but I’d never been across the Nullarbor, so I was excited to see the desert and the wildlife out there.
The trip was life changing for me. It opened my eyes to the beauty of this land we live in.
The Bunda Cliffs where the desert meets the sea were particularly mind blowing to me. We stopped there and I sat on the cliffs edge watching a seal colony below being stalked by sharks. It was crazy thing to witness. I saw the rabbit proof fence and lots of other things I’d only read about.
Stories from some of my other works come from that same trip. It really left a massive impression on me.
Driving home we came past those same cliffs, but it was at night…
It was the most humbling thing I’ve ever seen. It was a new moon with light pollution, it was a dark as dark gets. There was no sound but the crashing of the waves below.
Dad said said to me “you won’t see that again, so look at take it in!”
The night sky was clear and looking south to the horizon the sky was filled with more stars than I’d ever seen before.
In the middle was the Milky Way crystal clear in all its glory. The emu in the sky rising from the horizon.
It was there my Dad taught me the trick to use use the southern cross and pointers to find South. Something I thought was menial then, but I still use it and have even passed his method onto my kids.
I remember lots of little things he taught me on that trip and a lot of the conversations we had.
What I didn’t realise at the time, was that that’d be the last great adventure we’d ever go on together.
2 years later he was gone.
All I have is memories now.
The memory of those cliffs comfort me when I think about him and who he was to me.
That was the last time.
This is for everyone that’s lost someone close.
Cherish every moment.
You just never know.