Artist: Craig R. Barrett
Size: 400 x 90 cm
Museum: Shrine of Remembrance (Melbourne, Australia)
Technique: Pigment
Red sky is one of the few works in the exhibition that is not directly inspired by a war poem. In speaking about the work Barrett has said that this banner expresses a cosmic thought that all matter belongs to a cycle of creation and destruction. The stars that illuminated the night sky during the First World War are the same stars that we see when we look into the sky today. Viewed on a cosmic scale the loss of human life during the First World War can seem insignificant, but on a human scale it represents a deeply challenging fact about our past. In Red sky Barrett uses the cosmic and human dimensions to illustrate the binding forces, both universal and particular, that are expressed by acts of individual and collective commemoration.
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