Suspending time

Inspired by Guy Maestri's roadkill paintings.  The dead rosellas.  Suspended.  Their beauty captured and revered.  Suspended for a moment in time.

Rosella
2014

Guy Maestri
Oil on board



I saw these works at the Melbourne Art Fair and they were breathtaking.  At the same time Israel was bombing the life out of Palestine and I couldn't help thinking of all the lives (colourful, sacred lives) extinguished like roadkill during the bombing.  No one seemed to care.  I wanted to take those lives and suspend them, Maestri-like.  Reverence them.  Remember them.

Roadkill

2014

Sue George

Acrylic on board