LEIGH HOOKER
The Crucible
Mixed Media
49 x 64cm
Sun, dirt, salt of the Earth, comradery, are some of the elements I wish to deploy in this rendering of ‘an unknown soldier’.
Through my seeking of treasures in second hand places I was inspired to create a mixed media piece, and through these layers an evocation. (The act of recalling a feeling, memory or image to the conscious mind). Did this Soldier make it home? In case he failed I blessed him with some Aussie soil rubbed into the first layers. This felt good. In the final layer a single poppy for remembrance and to seal my respect.
