Notes on Various Pasts, 1987

SANDRA LEVESON
Notes on Various Pasts, 1987
Acrylic on linen
200 x 450 cm

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Artist Sandra Leveson, titled Notes on Various Pasts, 1987. This commissioned painting by Sandra Leveson, titled Notes on Various Pasts, exudes a strong sense of the Australian landscape, but not of a particular place. This imaginary landscape is implied through the colours and textures evoking the harsh beauty of a barren expanse, scarred, dry creek beds, charred stumps and weathered rock faces. There are three long cross-sections suggesting horizons with vast empty spaces, and at the same time random calligraphic jottings appear to sit on a stretched skin-like surface, possibly as an aerial perspective. There is a sense not of one view, but of various dimensions creating an ambiguity within the work.