⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ NEW DIRECTION   Ed. No. 159 

- WHEN YOU WISH UPON THE STARS & STRIPES

THREE CHEERS 

FOR THE REDWHITE&BLUE

THE RISE OR FALL OF WESTERN CIVILISATION?[Detail] 
[Study for "THE AMERICAN DREAM"(after Whiteley)]
Artist: Neville Williams © Arts Law Australia
Size: 122cm (W) x 61cm (H) x 4cm (D)
Media: Digital prints and collage, oil pastel, US dollar coin
on stretched canvas.
POA

To read a synopsis of this artwork 

and to see more of this artist’s work go to:- NevilleWilliamsArt

_____________________________

IT IS UNCOMFORTABLE TO SAY 

BUT WE'VE GOT TO START SHARING 

THE RESPONSIBILITY

In a paradoxically weird kind of way I sort of feel a bit sorry for Donald Trump. 

Though he wanted the top job and got it.

And ultimately in the long run he'll wear societal blame for what goes wrong. 

That's the way human beings historically deal with things. We blame the leaders.

Or at least that seems to be the set in stone default for the way humanity travels in cycles.

The responsibility for Mr. Trump being where he is comes down to the majority of Americans who chose to bother to vote and those too lazy to get off their entitled, disengaged or disillusioned backsides as well and accept their citizen's responsibility to participate. 

Or perhaps the responsibility can be apportioned even wider than Americans!

Human beings across the world spectrum have been gradually disconnecting from their own foundations now over generations. To explain that statement would take a book.

In short living inside the shadow of our mind rather than the light of day within our own heart separates us from ourselves. Who is your Master - Head or Heart?

That disconnection or abrogation of personal responsibility over time manifests in a myriad of dysfunctional ways leading to societal breakdown and eventually civilisational failure.

Sir Isaac Newton's third law of motion is drawn straight from the behaviour of Nature. 

"For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." 

I suppose it would be true to also say that for every inaction there is an equal and opposite action. It all balances itself out.

Just lately I'm seeing in microcosm in my own local backyard the rebirth of a 'Weimar Republic' mentality.

Now I don't want to go into turgid details here because it is all too close to home. 

This is the problem. Everything becomes knotted in action/reaction, inaction/reaction developing then into hyperbole and so complexity and confusion.

And the masculine energy is so easy to put out of kilter. Touchy, touchy, touchy. 

All leading to explosions of destructive ignorance.

But if we can't enact in ourselves the preparedness to take responsibility for the care of our own personal rubbish (that is the grot that we have generated ourselves) then what hope is there for dealing with any of the other major worldly challenges now on our full to brimming plates? 

We give away the power to individuals who are prepared to use it in their own way, to confront what we refuse to redress within ourselves. Our shadow imprisons us in a kind of dysfunctional despair. 

We become so blind that we can no longer see the truth in any situation.

The result...well just look at history. 

It is the likes of those individuals thrown up into the manufactured vacuum vacated by humans own lack of personal responsibility that leads to a most painful reckoning of all the ignorance and imbalance. 

As much as it is anathema for us to look into our own mirrors crunch time is upon us.

The only healing way is to find the love within ourselves. That is just plain hard work.

Our vacuous Fantasylands are bursting around us for lack of substance. America is not solely to blame...we all are. 

Time to get back to the simplicity and clarity of celebrating our own most valuable asset…

...our lives. Neville

MEDIA LETTER 🔽

From: Neville Williams 
Subject: WE ARE THE LEADER OF OURSELVES
Date: 20 January 2026 at 8:47:16 am AEDT
To: The Editor THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD 

Dear Editor,
 
WE ARE THE LEADER OF OURSELVES 

We’ve developed a society where there is far too much pressure, focus and expectation on our leaders to be Supermen and Superwomen. (“Relentless campaign of criticism takes toll on PM” Herald letters Jan 20) 

The real focus should be on us all accepting more personal responsibility for ourselves. 

We are our own leader. The real leaders can only encourage us to accept that responsibility. 

Gee, where did everyone go? 

Regards, 

Neville Williams

________________________

NEXT TIME 

[ RETURNING SUNDAY 30 JANUARY, 2026 ]

SEARCH LIGHTS TO THE HEAVENS

   

• Celebrate life!

  _______________________

 

What is your vision for YOO?

👋 Celebrate yoo! 

 

⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️

 

⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ NEW DIRECTION   Ed. No. 158 - BONDI BEACH IS STILL BEAUTIFUL

OUR WORLD 

IS WHAT WE MAKE IT TO BE.

A taste of Sunshine!

BONDI BREAKERS (2011) 

Artist: Neville Williams / © Arts Law Australia
Size: 120cm W x 100cm H x 5cm D on stretched canvas

Media: Oil pastels, water based acrylic, approx.1000 paper dots

PRIVATE COLLECTION

Bondi Beach is still beautiful. Come and Enjoy it!

Time for a new direction to surface. 

Sunshine! ... is coming.

BONDI THE BEAUTIFUL - A Taste of Sunshine!

(A short show of Bondi Beach artworks)

Go to:- NevilleWilliamsArt

________________________

NEXT TIME 

How we deal with our own rubbish
is a guarantee 
of where our world is heading.

• Celebrate life!

  _______________________

 

What is your vision for YOO?

👋 Celebrate yoo! 

 

⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️

 

 ⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ NEW DIRECTION   Ed. No. 157 - TIME FOR A NEW DIRECTION

Sunshine! ... is coming.

Sunshine! (reconnection 1) [Thematic bridging artwork]

(A retrospective of artworks by Neville Williams)

©️ Arts Law Australia

Size: 120cm (H) x 132cm (W)

Media: Acrylic and paper dots on stretched canvas

PRIVATE COLLECTION

I've been talking about a retrospective of my work for some years now and the opportunity is starting to present itself for this to actually become a reality.
But still it is not going to happen quickly.

I'd like it to be an event about honouring myself. (Something of which I believe we do not do enough.) And it would be good if this paralleled my moving to live in beautiful New Zealand. (It's only across the ditch.) 

I'm looking to become a citizen of the "United States of Oceania"....The USO.

There's quite a lot involved in doing this exhibition P-R-O-P-E-R-L-Y. And I do reckon that we're forgetting how to do things p-r-o-p-e-r-l-y in our world mistaking any sort of "doing" as worthwhile. Not so! 

While I'd love the Exhibition to take place smack bang on the corner of Oxford at Crown Streets in Darlinghurst, Sydney leading into a not too distant Mardi Gras that may not be how it ends up. 

It might want to be a low profile affair?
I'm not sure but life will reveal its cards in its own timely way.

Anyone who would genuinely like to contribute in some way please let me know. 

It's time for cups of coffees and sharing. 

Not too sure at this stage how yoo might help but the invite is put out there anyways. Neville

PS 

What we need presently is the 'gold' of positive heart felt creatively contributing energy. 

That is precisely the thing that is missing in too much of the frenzied action of our world. 

No soul. And then we wonder why we feel so unhappy with the results?

We get out of life what we put into it. N.

________________________

NEXT TIME 

OUR WORLD 

IS WHAT WE MAKE IT TO BE.

A taste of Sunshine!

   

• Celebrate life!

  _______________________

 

What is your vision for YOO?

👋 Celebrate yoo! 

 

⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️

 

 

⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ NEW DIRECTION   Ed. No. 156 

- THE RELUCTANT LEADER (WITH GOOD REASON)

WHY WE GET SO FEW OUTSTANDING LEADERS

Universal Studios (2025)

Can I recommend the recently released feature film 'Prime Minister'.

Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern had me hooked right from the start of this documentary film when she speaks to an audience at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts...

"You'll be our future decision makers and leaders...

and it must be daunting looking out at the challenges 

that are in front of us. 

There's so much change that we want the World to be simple again.

And part of that oversimplification is that we're much more inclined to look at one another 

in binary ways. Good. Evil. Bad. Right. 

Has meant that we've got a hyper partisanship that I think can be really damaging 

now means we don't work together as much. 

It means we don't listen and engage in respectful debate that we need.

And if we are to get back to doing all of those things, 

because we won't solve the climate crisis unless we do, 

we won't solve the conflict in the Middle East unless we do.

We have to re-humanise one another."

Her Prime Ministership in NZ is a casebook study in what happens to decent leaders...they get burnt out.

Her inspirational leadership is to be admired but any leader no matter who they are simply can't keep giving.
Even the US President a man who is a master of abusing confidence and bulldozing his way through looks like he's stretched presently.

The really outstanding leaders have a balance between their emotional and intellectual selves. An awareness of both the masculine and feminine within. A long term view rather than the knee jerk reaction. 

They know themselves so well.

How we do so love to blame them when our bottle isn't heated to the right temperature. Jacinda Ardern is an apt example where those who haven't got the foggiest about why they're even breathing will lay siege to those who are at least having a go. It did not surprise to have it revealed in this documentary film that she did not want to be the Prime Minister in the first place.

She knew what she was in for.

Jacinda Ardern ultimately earned her stripes as one of those rarities…

… a leaders leader.

My experience of most New Zealanders is that they are a wonderful people... mostly. That's one of the reasons I'm planning to live there. But there'll always be in any location the loud and lost in life who make themselves heard simply because they choose not to listen and learn. Small pond thinking is not the ocean. Isn't it called ignorance? We all suffer from it to one degree or the other.

The film 'Prime Minister' is just a wonderful expose on what it takes to be a real leader. 

A person can only have the greatest admiration for those who possess the strength, capacity, resilience, talent and tenacity/persistence to keep at it. 

Wholistic leaders are sadly in short supply in our times. Too many so called leaders just don't have the vision to see a broader, farther and deeper picture forward let alone help make a reality of it. Most of them only know how to apply band aids. And this is only a reflection of the short term values we have allowed to creep into our clutching mindsets. In fact we won't let leaders take us forward because we're too protective of our past and present at the expense of our future. Too many only have a view to their next pay packet. Trying to see further only addles the already overloaded headspace.

It's my job as an artist to say things like that.

Politicians can't. We are offended too easily. Artist's try to hold up a mirror to the truth in any given situation and that can be discomforting.

And too there'll always be the extreme of the nit wits who think they are born to rule and can lead us out of our own mess. Delusions of grandeur. 

We get ourselves into the messes and we get ourselves out of these messes.

Real leaders encourage us to do just that not solve our problems for us. 

They can only help by their experience, actions and inspirations.

There's no other way but to accept that our humanity is going to need to either lower its expectations of our leaders (nay, further, our expectations generally) or learn to share a greater responsibility amongst ourselves for the sane and proper stewardship of ourselves individually, our humanity and the planet.

My goodness don't we baulk at all of that. Scary stuff...and it can be.

Even a hint of it to some sends them into cold sweated apoplexy and complete denial.
We want big brother to solve our problems for us...until big brother is no longer delivering what the small minded egos expect... then they discard those leaders and look for some other scapegoat to take on the burden of their own collective weaknesses.

Isn't all of that being exposed presently. Nowhere to hide.
This is the first step in us moving somewhere worthwhile by accepting that YOO are your own leader.

I am learning that honouring yourself is to step up the ladder of life. Most important. 

Too many don't feel they are good enough.

The quality of your own life is up to the relationship YOU make with YOO! Neville

________________________

NEXT TIME 

Sunshine! ... is coming. 

• Celebrate life!

  _______________________

 

What is your vision for YOO?

👋 Celebrate yoo! 

 

⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️

 

⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ NEW DIRECTION   Ed. No. 155 - FEET ON THE GROUND

COMING DOWN TO EARTH

TOWARDS PIERROT free (me) [Detail]

ARTIST: Neville Williams©️Arts Law Australia

MEDIA: Fired Clay, lacquer, polished brass, 

indelible ink on wooden base.

SIZE: 72cm(H)  Base: 20cm square

NFS

To read a history of the evolution of this artwork 

and to see more of this artist’s work go to:- NevilleWilliamsArt

This is the eighth reworking of this sculpture which is a self portrait about Pulcinello evolving into Pierrot.

This time round his feet are actually on the ground and there is the inclusion of the star that he is reaching for. This makes its own statement.

I wonder if we don't honour ourselves enough mainly because we don't understand the value of what we are in essence? Is it that we are moving farther away from our own self understanding hence the horrors? The following letter to the Media is a call for action towards us refocussing ourselves.

We can complain about the world state of affairs but when more of us decide to step off the un-merry-go-round we have created, steady our own self made dizziness and choose a directional path within then things can only get better. Neville

THE FOLLOWING LETTER WAS ALSO SENT TO THE EDITORS 

OF THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD AND THE DAILY TELEGRAPH 

 

From: NEVILLE WILLIAMS

Subject: WE NEED TO CHANGE OURSELVES

Date: 5 January 2026 at 8:22:07 am AEDT

To: The Editor THE AUSTRALIAN 

Dear Editor,

WE NEED TO CHANGE OURSELVES

Does the ever lengthening conga line of those calling for a Royal Commission only add more complexity* to the problem?

Is this about being part of the herd and being seen to be concerned rather than the best way to go about solving the very real problem of ignorance in our world today?

Why waste time, energy and money on an exhaustive Royal Commission? Don’t we already know what the problem is: IGNORANCE. Whether that is antisemitic ignorance or any other form of ignorance us humans seem to have a monopoly in this creation for not understanding the importance and value of our own lives.

We don’t honour and acknowledge the value of our own selves enough. That’s where the focus of time, energy and money needs to be focussed.

Yet we seem so unwilling to face our own individual shortcomings preferring to project what we don’t understand onto others. Why is that so? 

An initiated world wide project encouraging us all to mind our own business and get our own backyards in order should be on the table already.

But we find our better selves missing in all of the fury generated activity. Isn’t that the problem? We need to turn the outward outrage inwards towards reconciling ourselves. No excuses and no exceptions.

When we start to understand individually that we are our own leaders then we’ll all be part of a healing world rather than the sick planet we inhabit presently.

Forget a long winded Royal Commission. Where is the action towards understood self healing on a world scale? 

Regards, Neville Williams

*The wheels of government move too slowly for the exponentially increasing drive of change in our world today. Too many of us are not finding what we are looking for and this is fuelling a swell of discontent towards those infrastructures including governments, business and community that are not delivering what we desire or expect of them. We want happiness. These structures are not designed to deliver the sort of deep and abiding peace/happiness/joy that we crave so in all these places and ways we traditionally look for satisfaction.

I once heard it said that "Big expectations equals big disappointments. Small expectations deliver small disappointments and with no expectations we sometimes receive pleasant surprises". 

Our expectations are getting in our own way. N.

A pointed commentary by Wilcox here in her cartoon “Grass Roots” Herald Opinion Jan 7).  Those with the loudest voices usually ultimately have the least to offer. We need to learn to listen to ourselves not the rabble who only know how to rouse!

Be wary of those who are driven by one thing and one thing alone...their own (ego) survival. 
That's all about letting fear run the show. A very poor show indeed.

Seek out the lovers of life. N.

________________________

NEXT TIME 

The reluctant leader (with good reason).

• Celebrate life!

  _______________________

 

What is your vision for YOO?

👋 Celebrate yoo! 

 

⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️

 

 

⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ NEW DIRECTION   Ed. No. 154 - RIDING THE WAVE

GET HOLD OF YOUR SURFBOARD 

AND RIDE IT LIKE THE WIND

After the Storm - Bondi  (1993)

Artist: Neville Williams ©️ Arts Law Australia

Size: 120cm W x 110cm H

Medium: Acrylic, gold leaf, sand grounding, 

collage on stretched canvas, framed

PRIVATE COLLECTION 

To read a synopsis of this artwork 

and see more of this artist's work please go to:- 

NevilleWilliamsArt

🔴

 

From: Neville Williams 

Subject: READ THE WARNING SIGNS OF A TSUNAMI

Date: 27 December 2025 at 9:45:31 am AEDT

To: The Editor THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD 

 

Dear Editor,

READ THE WARNING SIGNS OF A TSUNAMI

In response to your editorial headline “Why weren’t concerns over Bondi heeded?” (Herald Dec. 27) the answer is we don’t want to hear the truths let alone do anything about it*.  

And that relates to Bondi or any other issue.  

That is why human civilisation is in decline. 

Even that previous sentence we want to push away while pointing a finger at the messenger. 

No, I’m actually quite a positive person. I just like keeping the company of the truth. It keeps you clear and aware of what actually is going on around you (and inside as well).

It’s all hard work to change our stubborn mindsets. We’d rather settle for an ocean of mediocrity and then express our outrage at others when a tsunami such as Bondi or any other ground clearing storm occurs.

When are we going to wake up to the realisation that it is homework time for us all? No exceptions.

How bad does it need to get?

Kind regards, Neville Williams

FOOTNOTE: 

* It also must be acknowledged that our authorities have a limit to their capacities and resources. They're just not able to police every potential battle station.

Also, our world won't let a comment like that expressed above be reprinted in the Media particularly in the current milieu. We are being made to look at ourselves and face hard truths. This is tipping us out of our comfort zone.

We simply do not want to hear any bad news.  And that's understandable to a degree.

I repeat here that the first step to solving a problem is to face up to the fact that we have a problem. Us.

What has been said here is unpalatable to most human beings. It doesn't leave a good taste in our mouths. Here's another truth. We are going to need to sugar coat the medicine pill we are required to swallow for that very reason. 

And then it's true too that too much sugar can make us sick. All such a conundrum. Jeez the balance is so difficult to get just right. But we have to make the journey to our better world bearable at the least. 

Of course we could choose the ego driven "I know better" course but it comes with a caution of pain, more pain and even more pain. 

We all need to move to higher ground. Neville

________________________

NEXT TIME 

FEET ON THE GROUND

• Celebrate life!

  _______________________

 

What is your vision for YOO?

👋 Celebrate yoo! 

 

⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️