Our Xmas are very different in this sunburnt land and the colours of our country, our landscapes, our flora and fauna are quite remarkable and should be celebrated more.
An Australian Xmas animation. Our Xmas are very different in this sunburnt land and the colours of our country, our landscapes, our flora and fauna are quite remarkable and should be celebrated more.
Best played with sound on.
I drew inspiration of an outline map of Australia and the use of paper like effect on layers from a recent CISRO State of the Climate 2020 video, to create this animation.
https://www.csiro.au/en/Showcase/state-of-the-climate
My weary body seeks rest and subsidence
As I slouch on a chair in hard found solitude
My weary body seeks rest and sustenance
As I slouch on a chair in hard found solitude
Wiping tears from my glasses
Thinking at all those beautiful people we lost
So unfairly
This pandemic filled year.
A frenzied 12 months like no other now behind us
My team of vital workers
Beavering away until the last moment
Their remote location
The only saving grace.
Now it’s time for me to finish my cookies
And brush them off my beard
To swig the last of my full-cream milk
And fulfil my yearly obligations
Delighting children of this world.
Though some presents won’t be delivered
And for that I am full of pain
For the joy of Christmas morning
Will also be tinged with sadness for many
With an aching emptiness of lost ones
Anguish and deep longing in their soul.
Merry Xmas
Ho, ho, ho.
The Spoken Word 