Resigned to her fate. This is it. How will the forest consume her? What will the animals take first? This bowerbird is most attracted to her shimmering blue eyes… he wants to pluck them out and decorate his beautiful nest with them. She is still breathing but already he is swooping in. She wonders—will they feel sadness for her plight as they fill their bellies? And when her bones are stripped of flesh, then what? Will they crumble into dust, become a part of the earth?

A meditation on death and decay. The realisation of just how indifferent the natural world is to our suffering.

Inspired by Goya's The Sleep of Reason.

This is an original hand pulled etching print. It srinted on 250gsm Somerset printing paper using charbonnel etching ink.

Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.5 inches

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Kate Belvedere is an artist living in the High Country mountains of Australia. A painter, draftswoman and printmaker, Kate uses these mediums to explore themes of decay. She is particularly interested in investigating the life giving and life taking aspects of the natural world.

Kate completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2017 specialising in sculpture. It wasn’t until after she left university that she began oil painting and printmaking. Since then, they have become the major focus of her work. Heavy aquatinting conveys a sense of dark, otherworldliness in her prints, while similarly in her paintings, figures emerge out of thick brushstrokes, into light.

"I create my art because it satisfies my soul. Sometimes mournful, sometimes silly, I intend to create work that is true to my understanding of this funny old thing we call life."