Harrison Street #2
Before you scroll down, hear this:
If you observe this piece and feel nothing, feel free to supplant that nothingness with the intentions and title provided below.
But if you do feel something, read no further. Keep those feelings and impressions instead - for they will be worth much more to you.
Alexander Wept
This is a tribute to the work of the Greens, and uses the most conventional symbolism of any of the artist’s pieces to date.
The background shows the bleached sand and cloudless sky of a dead land, starkly reminding the viewer of the fate the greens are working to save us from. By contrast, the centre of the piece shows slim window to the blue skies and iconic orange sand of the vibrant Australian landscape. It acts as the light at the end of a long tunnel, a path forged by navigating through the large, overarching red and blue from the left and from the right. The red and blue aren’t reaching towards the light, they’re both contesting for the purple that lies between them. The enticing purple fills the exhausted space of an hourglass which makes up the vertical centre of the piece - space which expands as the sand trickles down. Within the remaining space of the hourglass lies the Green’s triangle, solely focussed on the path to the living earth.
