Journey left to right was entered in the High Court Centenary Art Prize, the competition won by Rosella Namok’s Today now …we all gotta go by same laws. The subject matter is typical of the artist’s work – an exploration of the relationship between the human psyche and the landscape. In this painting a large shadowy figure, that fills the height of the canvas, traverses the landscape heading from left to right. It appears six times across the almost six metres of the canvas. The direction is purposeful, though the figure is always partly obscured within the landscape. The paint is thick and crusty on the surface. The figure may be autobiographical, but it also alludes to a larger idea – of the journey of humankind in a world of uncertainties.