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IMAGES
with gray borders are CLICKABLE LINKS to ENLARGEMENTS, some
with "shimmer" views.
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ARTIST'S STATEMENT
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Hot
Spot(s) (15) - Mesopotamia, , 152cm x 122cm/ 60" x 48".
Dust Storm Over Gulf region. (C). © Ranna®.
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Hot Spot(s)
(12) - Mesopotamia
65cm x 91cm/ 26.5" x 36" (C) © Ranna®.
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Hot Spot(s)
(13) - Mesopotamia: Smoke trails from Oil Fires after
Bombing,
91cm x 65cm / 36" x 26.5" (C) © Ranna®.
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Hot Spot(s)
(14) - Desert Lion, Desert Lamb, Mesopotamia,
91cm x 65cm / 36" x 26.5" (C) © Ranna®.
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There are so many connotations
to the term Hots spots... In these
artworks, Ranna employed multiple layers of double entendre.
One meaning took its cue from satellite
imagery informing this series: The
red spots in all the paintings (click the thumbnails for Enlargements)
are an artefact of the satellite imagery. They connote actual
"hot spots" where the heat from oil fires, bombing
fires, or wild fires on Earth's surface is so intense that
it shows up as red marks on the satellite image - Hot Spots.
The
first image illustrated above left includes the amazing shape
of the immense sandstorm that blew through the entire Gulf
region at the beginning of the Iraq war, as though even Nature
was trying to prevent what had been launched. (Click the thumbnail
to go to a larger image to see the shape more clearly.) It
was uncanny that at the time that the first waves of bombing
were vollied at Iraq, there were also huge fires in Australia's
deserts and in the American South West, and multiple fires
in Texas, former U.S. president George W. Bush's home state.
Viewed from afar, even those fires' hot spots and even the
smoke trails of oil fires after bombing (Hot
Spots 13) hold an eerie, ethereal quality...
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Hot Spot
(16) -The American South West,
66cm x 38cm / 26" x 15" (C) © Ranna®.
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Hot
Spot(s) (17) - The American South West, 65cm x 91cm/ 26.5"
x 36" (C). © Ranna®. View includes former nuclear
testing area in Nevada.
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Hot
Spot(s) (18) - Central Australia, 66cm x 38cm
/ 26" x 15" (C). © Ranna®. Near Maralinga.
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Hot
Spot (19) - Central Australia - Maralinga, 91cm x 65cm
/ 36" x 26.5" (C). © Ranna®. NOTE: Maralinga is a
location within the Woomera area of Central Australia where
the British undertook above ground nucelar testing between
1955 - 1963.
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The momentum towards the Iraq war was inconceivable and incomprehensible
to her Ranna's artist mind and sensibilities. Although Ranna
marched with thousands in Washington D.C. (and was aggressively
challenged by friends in Australia for living in America at
such a time), subsequently it was through art that she was able
to shift her reaction into a more universal statement, something
more enduring, a response that revealed for all to see the beauty
of the lands involved.
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Hot
Spot (20) - Central Australia, Dust storm towards Lake
Eyre, 78cm x 91cm / 31" x 36" (C). © Ranna®. View
includes the Maralinga nuclear testing area.
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Hot
Spot(s) (21) - The American South West, 152cm x 122cm/
60" x 48" (C). © Ranna®. View includes former nuclear
testing area in Nevada.
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Hot
Spot(s) (22) - Central Australia, 152cm x 122cm/ 60" x
48" (C) © Ranna®.
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Hot
Spot(s) (8) - Mesopotamia, 60cm x 45cm / 24" x
18" (P) © Ranna®.
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HOT SPOTS
Bush fires
Wild fires
Wars
Nuclear contaminated zones
Nuclear test sites
The latest "in" night club
The latest "in" travel destination
Hot places
DESERTS...
Regardless of what humans do to each other - and Earth - down
on the ground, viewed from 1 kilometre above, our world is
strangely serene and unimaginably beautiful.
(©
Ranna®.)
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Hot
Spot(s) (9) (Mesopotamia),
60cm x 45cm / 24" x 18" (P) ©
Ranna®.
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Hot
Spot(s) (10) (Mesopotamia),
45cm x 60cm / 18" x 24" (P) © Ranna®.
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Hot
Spot(s) (11) (Mesopotamia), 60cm x 45cm / 24" x 18" (P)
© Ranna®.
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Hot
Spot(s) (3) - (Mesopotamia),
30cm x 26cm / 15" x 11" (P) © Ranna®.
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Hot Spot(s)
(4) (Mesopotamia),
30cm x 26cm / 15" x 11" (P) © Ranna®.
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Hot Spot(s)
(5) (Mesopotamia)
26cm x 30cm/ 11" x 15" (P) © Ranna®.
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Hot Spot(s)
(6) (Mesopotamia)
30cm x 26cm / 15" x 11" (P) © Ranna®.
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Hot Spot(s)
(7) (Mesopotamia)
30cm x 26cm / 15" x 11" (P) © Ranna®.
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