Salt and Ore. Red dirt dreams. Port Hedland

by Kerry Tolson @kerrytolson.com

A drifting of red covers the horizon and slowly blankets the scene into muted tones.  It could be a Eugene von Guerard painting from colonial times, the rust sprinkling across a greyish blue sky, then forming a more solid brushstroke to the ground blending the red with ochre and tan with patches of silvering green and white. In the distance a ribbon of brown cuts into the landscape and trails towards large oxidised bulks.  For as far as we can see it’s flat, stretching endlessly, stunning yet harsh, a place where the dreaming is of red dirt dollars.

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