Near and Far Sight. Diptych 20x36" (50.8cm x 81.3cm) overall. Oil paint, mica pigment on gold metal leaf on gesso board

"It is ‘the beautiful sorrow of things’, sunt lacrimae rerum; there are tears in everything, [he] said not mournfully nor hopelessly but as a paradoxical statement about the beauty of the world" Adam Roberts, Aeon essays 14 March 2014. The beautiful, the sublime, the subjective and oddly elusive nature of memory, like darkness sprinkled with gold

Landscape after Conrad Martens Lake Illawarra