Beautiful Sunset
Framed to reflect the tradition of 19th Century landscape painting in Australia, Beautiful Sunset is a work so slow in pace that it could be mistaken for a still image. The work was filmed on the edge of the Flinders Ranges, South Australia and shows a river red gum’s slow transition in the last light of the day. The measured pace of the moving image seems to suggest that patient observation might lead to a deeper ‘seeing’.
This revelation comes with changing light, the setting sun altering everything it touches. In this way the work relates most strongly to another of Wallworth’s works, Damavand Mountain, where temporal changes alter, if only for a moment, something more enduring - in this case the iconic gum struggling to stay alive on the river courses across Australia’s drying countryside.
Produced by Forma
Photo: courtesy of the artist
