Belonging – Images as Related Texts

The Art Gallery of NSW website has a wonderful tool called myvirtualgallery, a feature that enables users to group images from gallery collections then present the images online.  Have a look at my collection of images:

“Belonging”
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/ed/virtual_gallery?mode=view_gallery&galleryid=2211

and the group of images collected together by Jonathan Cooper, Manager of Information at the Art Gallery of NSW:

“Belonging and not belonging”
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/ed/virtual_gallery?mode=view_gallery&galleryid=1889

An interview with Jonathan, where he discusses the concept of belonging in relation to the Lord Frederic Leighton painting “Winding the Skein” is in the latest copy of SCAN magazine in the library.

Images

M.I.L.K. Moments of Intimacy, Laughter and Kinship
40 000 photos from 60 countries.  300 were chosen for an exhibition to celebrate humanity in the millennium year, 2000.

View some of these photos in a book with wonderful images and quotes conveying a sense of community, family and belonging.  Mrs Elliot has a copy.

“Without the human community one single human being cannot survive”
Dalai Lama