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… black swan of trespass on alien waters is a suite of 15 paintings named for some well-known explorers and discoverers of Western Australia.

The title is a line from an Ern Malley poem:
Durer: Innsbruck, 1495

 … I had read in books that art is not easy
But no one warned that the mind repeats
In its ignorance the vision of others. I am still
The black swan of trespass on alien waters.

The works were created to mark Western Australia’s sesquicentenary year — one for each decade — and were exhibited at the World Trade Center, NY New York, in November 1979.