James O'Brien

Wide Brown Land

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James O’Brien

25/01/2016

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror –
The wide brown land for me!

– Dorothea Mackellar

Here are some photographs I took today of the sculpture “Wide Brown Land” by Marcus Tatton, Chris Viney and Futago at the National Arboretum in Canberra.

What a wonderful piece of public art.

Wide Brown Land sculpture by Marcus Tatton, Chris Viney and Futago

2 responses to “Wide Brown Land”

1world2feet

25/01/2016

Cool photos!

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Victor

26/01/2016

That is something different, I like it!

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