Polygonal City 16

Visitors entering Broken Hill from the south are presented with an impressive minehead after travelling for hours through semi-desert. A row of corrugated iron buildings and rough stone wall replete with graffiti (my embellishment) completes the scene. This is the first work in this series that has a deep perspective, the use of which has I feel somehow requires a justification. The composition was pleasantly straightforward to figure out. The diagonal of the cloud bank is used to counterpoint the severe vanishing point lines and consequently forms a scissor like arrangement. The looming red truck serves to break the horizon line and act as an colour accent in a low key palette. Its hard boxiness against the patch of clear blue sky and evident lack of driver brought to mind the early Steven Spielberg film Duel. The other memory it dredged up is from the 1970's film, The Deer Hunter, where the opening scene shows a large truck roaring into a still sleeping early morning steel town.

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