IS THE DARKEST HOUR BEFORE THE DAWN?
COMPLEXITY
Artwork Title: HOME OF LIGHT Addressing complexity.
Artist: Neville Williams (2025) © Arts Law Australia
Media: Acrylic paint on stretched canvas
Size: 100cm square x 3.5cm deep
POA
The ‘home’ here is everything you can see in the picture.
We are the environment.
We are in it and of it.
Each of us is part of the greater whole.
And to appreciate or value our environment and our place in it both inside and outside ourselves we need to know ourselves…well.
Too many are holding onto too many outdated ideas, values and concepts that are separating us from the human being within us. We are so full-on with our busyness that we have become human doings rather than beings.
Perhaps the call to action for our time is:-
“Reconnection to our larger world environment, each other but most importantly ourselves.”
We need to say goodbye to old ways of seeing and doing.
It is we who have made our world complex and confusing. It is the duty of our stewardship and unique place in this creation to simplify and enjoy life. Such a conundrum that we are given the beautiful gift of a life and too much we get lost in a forest of our own ignorance.
Make your home of light on a hill and enjoy the view.
Perhaps the river in the picture is washing away the dark preparing us for the oncoming dawn?
What we can do is to want things to be better and if we can’t contribute to making it so then is it so difficult to get out of the way? Or does our pride and ego just constantly need feeding?
