Bruno Leti

Broken Ground, 2022

125 × 125 × 2 cm Oil on Linen

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"The title of this painting is a metaphor for a ‘scarred land’. That is, scarred by modern civilisation!
This vast Australian continent, the surface crust of our Earth, forms a landscape which has undergone tremendous changes. The landscape has been damaged both physically and psychologically. Though, its subliminal beauty is still retained.

The horizontal line is the ‘divide’, metaphorically speaking, between First Nations people and the ‘new occupiers’. It is also the horizon line which denotes the flat sublime as an immense space made up of muted colours of ochre, orange, purple, red and all the shades in between!