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The TRIUMPH OF DEATH AND THE BREAKING WHEELS OF LIFE is a site specific installation and photo project in the Australian bush, created during a monthlong residential grant at the former home of artist Arthur Boyd, now called the Bundanon Trust. Based on the appearance of Breaking Wheels in the paintings of Pieter Breughel the Elder (Triumph of Death, Christ Carrying the Cross), Arthur Boyd's connection to Brueghel, the location of the site being known as Haunted Point ('but no one knows why...'), the Aboriginal history in the area and rumors of the nearby Ridge, the deadly Shoalhaven River currents and tides, the Buddhist Wheel of Life, my Quixotian quest curse, and a photograph of Sidney Nolan mounting a dead horse.
...along the amphitheatre trail, past the sign post, under the fallen Banksia, over the dead tree, right at the crossroads, past the termite mound, left at the lichen rock log, through the gum gates, past the snake tree, along the ridge, first at the cliff cairn, between the cave and the portal tree, 4 breaking wheels and the triumph of death. at the end of the paddock, near the old river fence, the dead horse stands. past snake mountain and the sacred stone circle, at end of the cedar trail, in the bush of haunted point, up the hill, the stone dolmen old man of the mountain wombat rock sits at the head of the ridge spine...
Bone Barrel |
Breaking Wheel of Life |
Triumph of Death |
Cliff Cairn and Gum Arm |
Mounting A Dead Horse |
The Old Man of the Mountain |
Breaking Wheel of Life and the Snake Tree |
Bone Shore |
River Tracks |
Tower of Babel |
Breaking Wheel of Life and Portal Tree |
Dusk |
Love |
Smoke |
Magpie to the Gallows |
The Ridge Path |
Stick Mound |
Breaking Wheel of Life and Portal Tree |
Wombat Rock |
Night Falls |
Bone Barrel at the River |
River Bones |
The Bone Cleaner |
The Poor Mangey Wombat and the Willow |
The Skull |
The Bones |
The Gum Gates |
Breaking Wheel of Life |
Breaking Wheel of Life and the Snake Tree |
Rain Delay Cave |
The Cliff Cairn |
Breaking Wheel of Life |
Hungry Cave |
Fire |
Lichen Rock on a Tree Stump |
The Gum Gates |
The Majestic Termite Mound |
Breaking Wheel of Life |
The Trapped Tree Troll |
Breaking Wheel of Life |
Breaking Wheel of Life with Crutch |
Post Vaulting |
Post Tree |
Post Gathering |
Quixote's Lance |
Quixote's Target |
The Full Moon |
Dawn Fog |
The Bone Barrel |
Bone Barrelling |
The Horse |
The Sacred Stone Circle Mound |
The Walking Gum |
The Stone Dolmen of Haunted Point |
Breaking Wheel of Life |
The Paddock of Haunted Point |
The Black Forest of Haunted Point |
Final Night |
Breaking Wheel of Life |
The Red Bellied Black Snakes of Death |
Breaking Wheel of Life |
After the Rain |
The Stick Tree |
The Head of the Ridge |
Wombat Skull |
The Dead Horse |
With The Dead Horse |
You Can't Lead a Dead Horse |
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Sydney Nolan Mounts a Dead Horse
Desert 1952 - photograph, Sydney Nolan |
Article comparing Boyd's Mining Town to Breughel's Crucifixion of Christ |
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Map to Breughel's Breaking Wheels of Life and Triumph of Death |
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