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Kim Wilson |
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Interpersonal, 40cm x 30cm, Oil on Canvas, Market Value: $1,200 |
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SOLD AT AUCTION |
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Artist Statement |
"When I was a child, my family spent a lot of time on our little Hood 23, in Moreton Bay. At night, we would drop a dolphin torch over the side on a rope. A myriad of creatures would swim up to the light. We would spend hours looking. I went to show our children this phenomenon a few years ago. We saw one crab.
Things have really changed.
Just after we were married, my husband, Peter, and I spent 2 ½ years sailing around the world in his boat, Skerryvore. Of books we read, while traveling at 5 k.p.h., many were written by sailors who had sailed similar routes in earlier days. They spoke of throwing a fishing line into the sea and immediately catching something for dinner - usually something large.
This was not our experience. We could still catch some dinner, a smaller tuna or Dorado but far less frequently -sometimes we would go for weeks, crossing a whole ocean, with no luck at all.
Things have really changed.
What we did see was debris in the water, stray long lines, and ghost nets. Evidence of us.
Time on the ocean, reinforced the beauty and immensity of our planet. The fabulous intricacies. The wonderful quiet, force with which life and planetary force goes about its business, mostly oblivious to us, but not, it seems, unaffected. It was strange to come back to the human hubbub. Where we team and rush for such different reasons.
The thought of what is happening to the rest of life on earth, so beautiful and intricate, hangs over me like an eternally dark cloud.
If there is one thing that living on a smallish boat in calms and storms and everything in between has enforced in me, it is that while we are a very intelligent, resourceful species, we are not the most important life form on earth, we are only one of them. We are a small part of it. Unfortunately we are often a very dangerous part. I think we have the mental resources to see this, but I wonder if we have the rigor and generosity to do something about it."
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