Reality is inextinguishable

Painting, sculpture in the round

66cm x 62cm

$350

The work engages with concepts of social injustice and false idols. In today's world we are told that the key to happiness is money and power. We are sucked into an ideology that to be great you must surround yourself with things that are expensive but have no real use. What you bought last year is now out of fashion and what you need now you cant afford. So you work harder and harder but the same thing happens the next year. So you become trapped in an endless cycle. We are kept sedated by prescription drugs and alcohol and told its OK to be depressed, it's how life is. But when you reject the ideals and cross the boundaries society confines you in, the world can become a harsher reality then before.

I moved to Canberra at the start of the year from the Blue Mountain to attend UC. I chose Canberra not only because of the university but because it reminds me of home, being surrounded by mountains and nature. There's nothing I love more then being among nature.