Yesterday, I was delighted to receive a copy of the literary journal, Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/NZ literature. My painting of Uluru is on the cover. I painted this a couple of years ago from a friend’s photo. Later that year, the editor of Antipodes contacted me, and said he’d seen my Facebook artist’s page, and would love to reproduce one of my paintings on the cover of the journal. He chose Uluru. 
The journal issue was delayed for a year-and-a-half, due to changes on the editorial board. But at last, it’s out, and my Uluru is on it!
This means so much more to me now, as I have recently been to Uluru, and although I didn’t see it at sunrise, I did see it at sunset, and took a couple of photos in the changing light.
Perhaps, when I get my art space organised in the flat I live in now, I’ll do a sunset painting of the rock.
This morning, before I woke, I dreamed that I was walking along a long, straight, dirt road, and as I looked to the east, I saw that the rising sun had painted the whole landscape a rich, dark red, just as it appears in my painting. Except the rock wasn’t there. Perhaps that symbolises my need to go back there and see the rock again, in the early morning.
