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Painting in an Empty Land
Short Film (Full Length) – 1981
I still want to paint the difficult view outside the back door that I’ve seen for the last 10 years and still can’t get to paint it as I want it.– Toss Woollaston
I saw something logical, orderly and beautiful belonging to the land and not yet to its people.– Colin McCahon
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