Night vision studies II

Place Asia: Timor-Leste
Accession Number ART94057
Collection type Art
Measurement Framed: 53 cm x 53 cm x 5.5 cm; Unframed: 50.2 cm x 50.2 cm x 3.5 cm
Object type Painting
Physical description oil on belgian linen
Location Main Bld: Peacekeeping & Recent Conflicts Gallery: Vietnam Gallery area: Intro
Maker Cattapan, Jon
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made 2009
Conflict East Timor, 1999-2013
Copyright

Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright

Description

Cattapan has conveyed a sense of stillness in this work, a moment of quiet contemplation and reflection for the soldiers after patrol. They appear isolated, as if floating, drifting in time and space, disconnected from the immediate realities around them.

This image is based on a photograph of two soldiers seated in an unloading bay, the area where soldiers returning from patrol unload the ammunition left in the chambers of their weapons. A buddy system is employed as they double-check each other's weapons.

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