I get lots of odd things added to the pile at times and one thing that arrived was this lovely pick. I could have cut it down but I do like to give credit to the original form if I can. I had made some landscape based pieces over the past months and this one suggested another landscape and character. It also reminded me of the gloomy painting in the Gallery about the Burke and Wills expedition and a pick… digs and the Dig tree is an Australian Icon. My wife suggested the character should be digging but I more or less wanted to portray a bit of the heartbreak of that return to camp. (and I didn’t have a lot of room left on the handle!)