Cherry Venture - The End is Near

High quality limited edition print on Ilford Prestige 310 gsm Smooth Satin paper, mounted on 5mm foam board and framed behind glass. The original oil painting was painted and sold in 2007.

This series is a theme of reviewing the fate of abandoned human manufactured objects in the natural environment. "Deconstructing Cherry Venture" focuses on deconstructing the shipwreck "Cherry Venture".

In this series, nature seeks its revenge in entropy by rightfully returning these objects to their constituent elemental dust. The Cherry Venture was driven ashore in 1973 during a violent storm. The stranded vessel high on the sand resisted every attempt to be returned to its sea duties, clearly choosing to become the accidental tourist attraction on the Noosa Northshore Sands. Abandoned to its fate – the mercy of the natural forces, the Cherry Venture slowly yet inevitably eroded and corroded into rust and dust. Sand, salt, water and air combined in an irritable assault on the integrity of all the structures forming the ship.