Blog 3

1/ CREATIVE Take any single Australian painting that you saw at the gallery yesterday (it must be one that you saw) and write a description either in poetry or prose. Pay close attention to detail in your description. What you are in fact doing in this exercise is a piece of Ekphrastic Writing. Check up the meaning of this word! 

I walk to see a landscape painting enrapture me in its own scenery as I witness lands presence stare at me, as a miniscule ant. As I continue to stare at the vast composition of this monumental piece, I notice the smaller signs of life that further establish my place in its space as a small being, with the smallest canoe in the reflective lake. From the blue skies that are presented enveloping me in this vastness. The grand mountains shown in full display with the mirrored water from the lake creates an atmosphere of ethereal divinity, unconquered by civilization. The landscape does not stare at me, with veracity nor intimidation, but that of a sacred divinity. My sense of minority does not come from just a mountain, nor the sky or even the puny canoe but the paintings long shot of all elements together creating a unity to establish its extensive landscape. The objects of this piece are not in dissonance but resonance to one another, echoing the voluminous Milford sound to me from the start to the end of my captivation of this art piece.