Night's High Noon
Night's High Noon
Night's High Noon; an Anti-Terrain is a powerful visual portrayal of the memories sublimated in the cultural construction of contemporary Australian identity. Each pictorial 'scene' is constructed of three layers of iconic images, creating a complex 'emblematic landscape' that is at odds with the 'information landscape'. Intricate image-fields, pulsing with constant motion and saturated color, describe complex collective memories as nightmarish visions. To a haunting musical score, Callas visualises the linguistic and totemistic heritage of white and aboriginal cultures in Australia. His distinctive layering techniques create a pictorial space that is simultaneously flat and multi-dimensional, a dynamic visual contrast to the conventional illusionism of television graphics.