Elizabeth Doidge Compare Scarecrows
I am not a
Christian, nor do these images have anything whatsoever to do with
crucifixes. Having seen a vineyard scarecrow near Strathalbyn I became obsessed with the concept of a composition incorporating
the strong diagonal pull of the posts and wires against the
confrontational vertical and horizontal, hung with clothes and topped with
a blank, blind head.
The drawing for the posts took so long and I made so many adjustments so the whole compositional thing would hang together with eye level, balance etc, that I kept on using the original drawing rather than remake all the same decisions and simply come back to the drawing I first thought of. I did, however, change the position of the scarecrow in the second two, balanced by the stronger sky.