NEW DIRECTION

⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ 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

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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 (Bondi) 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.

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NEXT TIME

The reluctant leader (with good reason).