When travelling through the flat, monotonous country of inland Australia, agricultural and mining structures are often visible for a considerable distance, rising like giant sculptures out of a flat plain: three-dimensional forms intersecting with horizontal lines. One of the forms encountered repeatedly are cylinders, most conspicuously as tanks or drums for water and fuel. In rural areas, silos are cylindrical icons. Almost all industrial processing plants, including power stations, have chimneys that tower above the landscape. Pipes are everywhere and even wire is a long thin cylinder. (Artist statement extract) ~ Sybil Curtis
Image: Sybil Curtis, All that remains 2022, Oil on canvas, 125 x 125 cm
