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Digial print title Polygonal City 0

Polygonal City 0
2006
Inkjet on watercolour paper
70 x 52 cms

This scene features a caravan park at Lang Lang on the shores of Westernport Bay. My wife and I were there alone on a bleak sunday with a icy wind blasting over the mud flats which gave the landscape a forlorn beauty.

The print was originally made as a counterpart to a painting and some of the models in it were textured with bitmaps digitally extracted from the art work. Although it was intended as an experiment, the fact that it read as a prototype for the Polygonal Cities series sealed its inclusion retrospectively as print number zero.

Perhaps the other reason for including it is the iconic status that the caravan on the seafront has in Australia - even if it has an el cheapo tin box annexed to it and enjoys a view of a dreary mudflat.