The Darling-Paroo Overflow in Western NSW is dry more often than not. The landscape is minimal, scattered perspectives, spinifex, saltbush, red sandy earth, nothing moves, there is beauty.
A scar, an ancient watercourse which is defined in some areas as white sand, quartz crystals, lighter than the red iron sand surrounding it, sits on the surface, blinding in the stark intensity of day. Occasionally a flat red rock on a vanishing edge of a pool, petroglyphs ancient and present.
A water tank, empty, it was always empty, now a decaying icon to the folly of trying to tame the desert.