Michael Leunig 'Boots and All' etching the distant chirp of children

the distant chirp of children and sand caking your feet

a figure falls across the page

bold and recognisably Schaller

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Michael Leunig 'Boots and All' etching the distant chirp of childrenMichael Leunig was an iconic Australian cartoonist, writer, painter, philosopher and poet, best known for his cartoons published in the Sydney Morning Herald and Age newspapers. Spanning the political, cultural and philosophical, his visual world was at once tender and perspective, forever preoccupied with the idea of a sacred inner life. Boots and all is an etching on paper. On a golden ground, Leunig carves four mismatched heads and four pairs of