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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social

2/21/2026, 10:51:45 PM

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The Immigrants #2 1983 from the series The Landscape Re-presented

The Immigrants reworks a reproduction of Frederick McCubbin’s The Pioneer (1904) by collaging photos of herself and her family – post-WWII refugees – over the original Australian pioneer figures. This intervention questions her family’s place within the then predominantly Anglo-Celtic demographic and implants her family’s immigrant story on to the Australian landscape.

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The Immigrants #2 1983 from the series The Landscape Re-presented.

This work constitutes a profound intervention into Frederick McCubbin’s The Pioneer (1904). While McCubbin’s triptych romanticizes Anglo-Celtic settlement, Zahalka "implants" her own family of post-WWII refugees into the frame. The visual juxtaposition is startling: in the central panel, the romanticized pioneer cottage is replaced by a prosaic, olive-drab "Smash Repairs" workshop, grounding the immigrant experience in industrial labor rather than pastoral idealism. In the right panel, the man crouching over a grave is replaced by a figure standing before a polished black headstone inscribed with "Rodina Zahalkova" (Zahalka Family). This intervention asserts an immigrant history of mourning and belonging within the "sacred" space of the Australian bush.

earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social

2/21/2026, 11:47:59 PM

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The original painting:

The Pioneer is a 1904 painting by Australian artist Frederick McCubbin. The painting is a triptych; the three panels tell a story of a free selector and his family making a life in the Australian bush. It is widely considered one of the masterpieces of Australian art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pioneer_(painting)

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The left panel shows the selector and his wife settling on their selection; in the foreground, the woman is deep in thought. In the centre panel, the baby in the woman's arms indicates that some time has elapsed. A cottage, the family home, can be seen in a clearing through the trees. The right panel shows a man crouching over a grave. A city is visible in the background, again indicating that time has passed. It is unclear whose grave it is, and if the man is the pioneer, the baby from the centre panel, or a stranger stumbling across the grave.

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