White House & Bollards, Crookwell, N.S.W.

[Walter Glover]

A tribute to Jeffrey Smart in a strange black and white sort of a way.

[Mick Fagan]

I wouldn't of thought of Jeffrey Smart, except I read your heading.

I find this to be first rate, it's attention grabbing in it's simplicity.

Mick.

[Walter Glover]

Thanks very much Mick, the reference to Phidias (Jeffrey Smart's pseudonym on ABC children's TV arts rutor for kids my age) may be a little lost in blacK & white but the hazard yellow andd red striped bollards and the large square blocks of the structure are repetitvely recurring devices in much of his urban works.

[Maris]

And another nice ART allusion (illusion?) is the row of De Chirico style shadows coming off those bollards.

[Walter Glover]

Maris, I found the motif compelling exactly because so many of the stars in the sky were in alignment.