caged painting/caged painter -> -> -> -> an adequate image of internal exile -> -> -> n-set
– Arthur Boyd, Figure supporting back legs and Interior with black rabbit, 1973-4
the image is from Arthur Boyd’s ‘caged painter’ series, commenced in 1971 upon his return to Australia after over a decade in England. The year he left Caetano Veloso was recording his own record of exile, ‘A