FROM MY 2016 SOLO EXHIBITION, INFINITE NATURE - AN EXPERIMENTAL WORK TO SEE WHAT EFFECTS I'D GET FROM LINE & COLOUR WITHOUT DOTTING, BASED ON THE BEAUTIFUL COLOURS & SHEEN OF PEACOCK FEATHERS I FOUND AT TALLAGALLA, OVER THE HILLS NOT FAR AWAY OVER "THE HIGH WAY". TALLAGALLA WAS ORIGINALLY T-ALLA-GAL-LA, T = TI/LADY; A QUEEN; ALLA/HIGH GOD; G/EARTH; GAL/GREAT MEANING "BIG-MAN"; A KING; LA MEANS "TO RELEASE FROM SORCERY". 

IN HISTORY, LEGEND & MYTH, THE PEACOCK SYMBOLIZES HOLINESS, NOBILITY, PROTECTION, WATCHFULNESS & GUIDANCE. IT HAS A LONG HISTORY IN THE MIDDLE EAST, PERHAPS ORIGINALLY BROUGHT BY EARLY INDIAN TRADERS TO ANCIENT BABYLON. THE GREEKS ONLY LEARNED OF THE PEACOCK AFTER ALEXANDER THE GREAT’S CONQUEST. ARISTOTLE CALLED IT A PERSIAN BIRD & QUICKLY ADDED THE BIRD TO THEIR PANTHEON OF DEITIES (PERHAPS THE ORIGIN OF THE PEACOCK AS A SYMBOL OF VANITY). IN GRECO-ROMAN MYTH, THE 100 EYES SEEN ON THE PEACOCK'S TAIL FEATHERS, SYMBOLIZE THE VAULT OF HEAVEN & "THE EYES OF THE STARS".