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An albino indigenous artist recently won the “Your Very Good Idea” award and has used the proceeds to lay out a zillion white plastic things (miniature aboriginal shields, apparently) in the shape on an exhibition building that was once in Sydney’s botanic gardens.

The big idea is that the installation represents “loss and destruction”; the building burnt down, taking with it a collection of indigenous artefacts, amongst many other things.

Said art installation cannot be appreciated from ground level; the outline of the old building can only be seen from a helicopter. It’s a temporary installation so it can’t be lost or destroyed. And you’d have to be told what the white shields are.

I’d say it’s more of a visual cryptic crossword puzzle than anything else.

It just goes to show the power of artistic dissonance. It’s just a shame that it’s completely untransferable, except to a few well-meaning mates.