In this original painting by Australian artist Tracy Dods, the artist wanted to evoke childhood memories of trips to the seaside, time away from screens and time away from the worries of the world.
"Although Tracy paints pictures of people walking into the sea, you know that this is a slightly dreamlike scenario, but it is also about an internal state, about loneliness, the possibility of self destruction. But for me that's almost too bleak for them, I liken them to perhaps Corbet or Casper David Fredrick's Figure on the mountaintop. This is the figure poised between being and not being... on the edge of consciousness which is a slightly more positive way of looking at humanity in the great void, the great cosmos." - Antony Bond, Assistant director of AGNSW