(The public use of the STAN&PETE emojis is subject to the good and right support of many.)

PUT ON A HAPPY FACE


Title:“Yesterday, Today and the Saviours of Tomorrow”(May 2020)
Inspired by The Children’s Tree, Botanic Gardens Sydney
Artist: Neville Williams©️Arts Law Australia
Size: 160cm (W) x 80cm (H) x 2cm (D)
Medium: Acrylic, charcoal on canvas (framed)
POA


This is the third attempt at producing this artwork. After two weeks it wasn’t working and was whited over. After another one and a half weeks work I turned the painting on its side and its wishes came through.

The Childrens Tree
(Photo: Evie Pikler)
Quite clearly the centrepiece wanted to be inspired by the Children’s Tree located near the waters edge in the Botanic Gardens, Sydney where Captain Arthur Phillip sailed past before raising the British Union Flag at Sydney Cove in 1788 to establish European Settlement here in Australia. 

The artwork didn’t want to be a portrait as originally intended it wanted to be a landscape that tells a story. It is an important story. It is a story of what we are doing to our planet earth. Our home. We are ruining it and us along with it.

To the right of the canvas we can see the walkway leading towards Sydney Cove from Farm Cove. A very subliminal opera house and harbour bridge can be observed if you look for them. The Spirits of Bennelong and Barangaroo can also be seen walking towards their rightful place in our larger STORY FOR AUSTRALIA


Along the bottom at the roots of the tree are the world’s children represented by emojis.  It’s their future and they and the child within us all is what will save the planet - along with the help of our artists and entertainers*.

Or perhaps the emojis shown are mostly just Lotto balls? 

Is that the Sun trying to break through in the top right corner?
Let the child in us speak. NW☺︎

Emoji's representing the children or the child within inside us all.

*NOTE THE SYMBOL OF ENTERTAINMENT i.e. Happy/Sad face motif
I tried four times to give the black emoji a happy face but each cut out stencil kept crumpling or breaking. It didn’t want to be happy so I turned the stencil upside-down. It worked then. 

I'm just going with the flow.