⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ NEW DIRECTION Ed. No. 147 - OUR HEART IS WHERE THE HOME IS
MAKING A STATEMENT
THROUGH ART
~ T H E W H I T E H O U S E ~
S Y D N E Y , A U S T R A L I A
Artwork Title: "THE WHITE HOUSE Sydney, Australia" [WORK IN PROGRESS]
(Digitally adapted concept inspiration photograph by Neville Williams)
THE RESCUER YOU ARE LOOKING FOR
CAN BE FOUND AT HOME.
All of my art has either a message or a story running through it.
While I occasionally like to create art for art sake (say a bunch of flowers) it is a motivator for me to want to observe what is going on in our world and to then re-interpret it into a storied art piece. But then thinking about it I discovered some while back that flowers too can tell their own powerfully scented story.
The painting I have started in on currently is based on a run down little cottage once painted white that I found in the Western Suburbs of Sydney (see compositional reference photo above). The paint is peeling off the walls, bird droppings contaminate the roof and the garden is now overgrown. It's like a lot of peoples lives that have become unkempt.
This white house was discovered the same week the US President started to renovate a section of 'The White House' in Washington in his own bulldozing way.
I wonder why that man attracts so much commentary? Is it that we are media programmed to love a show - the 'larger than life' theatrical drama of it all? With all the brouhaha comes the focus on the Pennsylvania Ave Washington address?
Why do we focus so much on him? Or for that matter any of our leaders.
Is the answer that we want them to solve our problems for us? Expect it even.
A real point of interest in preparing for this artwork was US poet Elayne Griffin Baker who wrote in 2020 during the first term of the incumbent US President *"There's no literature or poetry in the White House. No music. There are no pets in this White House. No loyal man's best friend. No socks the family cat. No kids' science fairs."
Is that a reflection of what America is today?
Isn't this all tail up?
Ultimately the real power in our world to "make anything great again" exists in homes all around the globe just like that pictured above. Behind these walls is where the real formation of our quality of life gestates.
We turn to these so called "leaders" when we should be turning to ourselves for the answers. The real decision about how we experience our own lives and in a larger world picture starts with us making choices within ourselves. It is the sum total of all of those grass roots decisions by individuals that adds up to a happy or otherwise world. And too the leaders we give ourselves.
The saying that "We get the leaders we deserve" is true.
One way or another we put those leaders in those lofty castles.
So this painting now begun is in a way a parody or comment on the idea about where real value lays (not lies).
Don't blame your leaders if your life is rotten.
That is using an excuse and abrogating responsibility to the self.
Clean up your own backyard and we'll naturally get the best leaders we deserve.
Anyway, even the true patriot leaders can't do it alone. Expecting them to solve our problems for us is being unrealistic. I just find it a bit funny that there are people who expect some superman or woman is going to fly out of the sky and sweep them to safety. I use the word expect. Big expectations bring about big disappointments.
If you want to be rescued then is it unrealistic to say that a certain posture needs to be accepted? But we humans are soooo stubbornly set in our indoctrinations.
We know! But know nothing.
Even if you are on a path of self discovery you are the one who needs to put in the work on the self. That involves the wise choice to listen to those who do know.
It is still your choice and responsibility who you listen to.
If we are not feeling safe then we need to dig deeper inside to find our true and real home.
Time to roll up the sleeves and get on with it.
Let's see if I can create something interesting here with my blank canvas. Neville
* Referenced from the article "The moment of pure, unexpected joy that silenced the age of grievance".
Tony Wright writing in the Sydney Morning Herald News Review Saturday November 29, 2025.
Size: 25cm W x 18cm H
Media: Acrylic on stretched canvas
NFS
Mum still reflects from her Aged Care Village
on the cherished memories of the years spent
in her suburban family home.
Our heart is where the home is.
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NEXT TIME
Going around in circles.
What is your vision for YOO?
👋 Celebrate yoo!
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