Akiane

This is my favorite picture
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THE CHALLENGE
…The maze and the challenge of the choices. The light is ahead for the journey to continue safely.But because of hunger, exhaustion, the hunger, the cold and the shadows the horse is losing its focus. The blue is the color of the mind, therefore I painted the shadows blue to create a mental challenge,the confusion. The challenge for the tired horse is which direction to choose. This is an allegory about our choices…
***…When I brought this painting to my printer, we both thought that because I’d used just a few colors, it would be the easiest to make the reproductions from. But it turned out to be the hardest. It turned out to be the true challenge.I doubt it was a coincidence…
-Akiane

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the world's smallest continent and a number of islands in the Southern, Indian, and Pacific Oceans. Neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and the French dependency of New Caledonia to the northeast, and New Zealand to the southeast.

The continent of Australia has been inhabited for more than 42,000 years by Indigenous Australians. After sporadic visits by fishermen from the north and by European explorers and merchants starting in the seventeenth century, the eastern half of the continent was claimed by the British in 1770 and officially settled through penal transportation as the colony of New South Wales on 26 January 1788. As the population grew and new areas were explored, another five largely self-governing Crown Colonies were successively established over the course of the nineteenth century.

On 1 January 1901, the six colonies federated and the Commonwealth of Australia was formed. Since federation, Australia has maintained a stable liberal democratic political system and remains a Commonwealth Realm. The capital city is Canberra, although the current national population of around 20.6 million is concentrated mainly in the large coastal cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide.