Dibirdibi Country 2008

Sally Gabori made "Dibirdibi Country" with paint, and maybe a brush, but who knows, it might even have been her fingers. What a palette – black, red, yellow, white, pink, and blue! I imagine her standing in front of a canvas, maybe on the floor, moving around it, layering these glorious colours, a big brushstroke here, a dab there. I wonder if she mixed the colours on the canvas itself, letting them blend and collide in real-time, a visceral dance of intuition and intention. Look at that confident stroke of blue, thick with pigment, cutting through the white. It's like a river, a boundary, or maybe just a feeling, captured in a single gesture. The colours aren't shy; they're singing. Gabori wasn't afraid to let the paint do its thing, to embrace the messiness and the unexpected. We're all, as artists, in an ongoing conversation across time. Each mark is a little piece of that dialogue, an echo of something seen, felt, or imagined. And paintings like this, they remind me that art is not about perfection, it's about expression, about being alive to the world.