Merchants of Venice - Limited Edition of 5 Artwork

Peter Hyatt reveals the world in tourism hyper-drive and as migratory phenomenon. This ‘off-the-charts’ social revolution is familiar, fantastical and confronting. The proscenium arch represents lofty human ambition framing private desire. Luminous skies, phosphorescent seas and mysterious landscapes signal change as imminent and inevitable. Human presence can be poetic or, increasingly. intrusive when commercialisation is king, sweeping all before it. The time-capsule images have a dream-like, sensual intimacy reflecting an urge to escape the ‘rat-race’ for the personal haven. The stage-set narrative also evokes the passage of youth to old age, vigour to decay, imagined and documentary. As epochs rise and fall, so lives ebb and flow. The symbolic power and genius of the monumental magnifies the highly disruptive and intensely poetic.