Oil on wood

Signed on the back.

Fading Landscape comments on the position that the environment and the natural landscape are placed in our societies. Nature is often only valued by its usefulness to human consumption. This painting uses the Great Australian Blight as the subject matter juxtaposed with geometric spaces to explore how the reservation of nature is only considered when it does not have another economic benefit to it. It questions if natural recourses where discovered or land development outweighed the economic value of preserving these reservation, we would ultimately choose the former. Slowly if we do not change our mindsets, surely we shall see the fading and disruption of natural spaces such as these to our detriment.