What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?”
Joseph Campbell
“If the body is a light bulb and it burns out, does that mean there’s no more electricity? The source of the energy remains. We can discard the body and go on. We are the source.
This painting is based on one of the many mutton birds found washed up on the shore of Middleton Beach last November, having died of starvation during a long and arduous migratory flight back to southern Australia from the north Pacific.
I can’t help but see in its outstretched wing one last almighty effort to continue on its journey – but was it a desperate bid to continue in this life or accepting aid for safe passage into the next?
