George Cooley - It's Not a Hard Place

George Cooley

It's Not a Hard Place

painting

122 x 70 cm

Its not a hard place, it portrays a vision. Just north of country, on the edges of a dry tableland region around Coober Pedy. Where the kangaroos go and the painted desert lives, where there’s time for hunting and camping and walking, you know. I lived and walked on this land, its not a hard place. In the distance you can see the rise of a high plateau with its hard-scorched ridges, rolling down towards the gap that’s layered with white sand stone coloured landscapes. Giving you an image of a hard place. But its not a hard place it’s a place where the emus are running and the crows are flying way up in the sky and the kangaroo goes