The Green Dragon
This my picture of the green dragon who discovers that people think he is a myth and sinks into a state of depression and loses his fire so he hides in the cave only to find that a neolithic human group has taken it over while he has been away greening the earth.
He was drawn in 1979 when I was there working for Australian Dr.Bernardo in the children services, getting involved with green issues and aboriginal land rights.
I always felt that Australia was a land of dragons as one chased of the iguanas of the lawn and out of the swimming pool at the children's home before the kids had finished breakfast we had a couple of fractured arms with the kids fighting with them ! So staff had to get them out before they came out to play though.
On school days they got to have the place to them selves for the early part of the day as most of the time it was a rush to get trhe kids up dressed breakfast and on the bus to be driven to their dispersed suburban schools around Sydney.
My true green awakening was born in Australia the difference between the natural out back and the industrialized abused and desolated landscapes was so apparent that you could not but realize that we had to get some sort of handle on the destruction of our environment I would say that for me Australia is
