A drowning within a drowning, repetition, a sunk and sinking swaying to the bottom, ebb and flow with the current, held in suspension by some invisible force. Like the algae now floating through his

Self-portrait Peter Paul Rubens

Bourke Street Tom Roberts

Bathers Julian Ashton

'Above us the great grave sky' Arthur Streeton

The rescue of William D'Oyly James Wilson Carmichael

A Sunday afternoon Tom Roberts