Our entangled ways overflowing.
Pleated and crumpled silk fabric printed with outlines of capitalised bodies overlayed in highland subtropical forests of the Bunya Mountains national park, spilling from not-quite-circles and rounded not-squares of steam and hot pipe bent Silky-oak. #everythingisspeaking #overflow #entanglement #notmodernism #steambending #hotpipebending #silkyoak #interdependence #symbiocene #capitalisedbodies #subtropicalrainforest
To make up for my lack of prep for the geminids shower I ran four cameras at once in different spectrums. This is a collation. #geminids
A little bit of geminids meteor shower, I didn’t have a northerly aspect so it’s only weeny, and I was a bit unprepared✨. #geminids #geminidsmeteorshower #geminidsmeteorshower2022
The other day visiting this tender place with @katieharrismacleod before she flys away, I will miss you dear one. 💛✨ Thank you for going slowly with me. 🕸️
Kabi Kabi Country, at the end of the road where they built the hospital, where for a few generations most here were born, or died. I hadn’t visited it until recently and I couldn’t really understand why. But when I saw it I recognised the motifs and patterns that were so present in so much of everything from my childhood. The ways of things- a language imprinted in everyone, but no one spoke of. Such a gentle and exquisite place flowing through a history of such deep trouble and pain. So intimately recognisable, and it continues, and so does the other. Water through stone. 🪨 #fullspectrum #waterfall #shapesofstones #theshapeofwater #theways
Everyday I draw and photograph being here, my own meteorology. The affects of this body, place, time. Trying to understand what I didn’t before. The patterns and the interference. #sensorimotordrawing #weatherpatterns #meteorology #photomontage #intergenerationalpatterns #drawing #patterninterference #patterns #landscapephotography #topologyoffeels
The horror and the wonder, and all the places in between. #sensorimotordrawing #photomontage #entwinedways #weatherpatterns #expansiveworlds #drawing #bilateraldrawing
#Waterfalls -in between places. 1. At the bottom of the hill where most are born here, fairy grotto in the town of violence. 2. At the bottom of the hill, where I live now. In between world, many stories. Both, complex veils on Kabi Kabi Country #infrared #fullspectrum
Any #millipede enthusiasts know if this is a Anadenobolus Monilicornis or another subspecies of #Anadennobolus
It seems to be greener than yellow and was spotted South East Qld, Aus
💚🌿🕸️ Our mutualism, moving through each other, and the world moving through us, tangled and beating. All parts melting into each other. Imploding, exploding, oscillating. A kaleidoscope of being. I hold your hand and feel the trees breathing. 🌬️🌲💚
#interdependence #entanglement #everythingisspeaking #symbiocene #endosymbiosis #lynnmargulis #archea #bacterialintelligence #sensorimotordrawing #emergentassemblage #epigenetics #sensoryreceptors #hgt #horizontalgenetransfer #thetangledtree #photomontage #assemblage #art #drawing #collage #love #kaliedescope #landscapephotography
Temporal holders, the roots of this Moreton Bay fig holding this seasonal waterway/flood path. I’ve never got it all in shot. It’s wider than the length of a bus, it’s girth like a blue whale. These on Kabi Kabi Country in this little pocket are only just over 150yrs old, and hold this little tributary of land at the edge of little Yabba creek from falling away. Buttresses forming this in-beween place, that would slip away into the water without them. Whompoo pigeons always enjoying their fruit and king orchids and stags and other ferns living in their upper levels mostly way beyond view, but you hear them, smell them. These photos in infrared and full spectrum show their tangle of arms more clearly. So cephalopod-like. Giant land squids 🕸️🦑🌱 #moretonbayfig #erosionprevention #forestfruit #subtropicalrainforest #fullspectrum #infrared
Enormous enigmatic infrared remnant of rainforest tree in the cool rain yesterday after a hot night camping by an exquisite frog chorus at Condonale NP. I’ve visited the remainder of this tree regularly, it’s grand size and hollow I always need to feel- that age, not often encountered in remaining forests. I’d never seen it in infrared but couldn’t help feel like an old wise tree person was captured. And experience of pareidolia that seemed appropriate. Kabi Kabi Country ❤️💖 #remnantrainforest #subtropicalrainforest #infrared #treepeople #pareidolia #oldgiants #ents #rainforest #infraredphotography
Afternoon, Wappa Dam #fullspectrum #sunset
Waterfall, smoke, stars, 80’s breakup songs sung backwards, forest sound scape. Mending.
Both hands following the smoke disappearing into the stars, my body as big as the sky, remembering how to be here, each time. Whian Whian, old friend, reminds me again, again, again. ❤️🔥✨🌬️ #sensorimotordrawing #smoke #interdependence #campfires #subtropicalrainforest #weatherpatterns #ways #selfregulation #bilateraldrawing #rememberinghowtobehere #disability #whianwhian #traumatherapy #somatic #drawing #photomontage #smokestories
Laying down Minyon rainbow 🌈
Slow camp fire 🔥 old forest 🐍🌿✨🌞💫
Table of weather 🌬️ Kitchen table, ply with red rainforest mud sanded back, overlays of weathered and somatic plant ink patterns. #weatherpatterns #plantink #timerecordings #symbiocene #therecordofthetime #woodgrain #dendrochronology #sensorimotordrawing
All the beautiful bent timber frames made with @rossannels at his bending course. Such a wonderful experience, the wood changing plasticity in your hands, as the lignin is heated, it feels like it’s reanimated or like you’ve just given it a good massage and it sighs with relief. Such a fantastic process. I might be a bit addicted! And we bent bunya- which self compressed and bent beautifully- another surprise from that amazing tree. Thanks Ross 🌲🌿💚 #steambending #woodbending #hotpipebending #freehandbending #lomandraplacestudios
Notes/relationships (…listen to a tree or stone…it knows for whom it should speak to and for whom it should remain silent…. A bit of loose Socrates from Phaedrus) #readingtheweather #kinship #firestories #writteninstone #waterstories #scying #sensorimotordrawing #photomontage #bodilylistening #socrates #relationships #somatic #embodieddrawing #traumatherapies #phaedrus #drawing #experimentaldrawing #art
Keepers of things, until we stfu 🌚🕸🌿
Doing what he loves on his birthday, teaching and bending timber. Happy birthday wonderful one @rossannels 💚🌿🌲✨#lomandraplacestudios #woodbending
We’re being dreamed into existence. #ir
I feel like an insect, tiny tiny holes, in chatted carved sticks of cedar and silkyoak #cedar #silkyoak #mechanicalinsect #chattedsticks
Weeping tea-tree touching #stars #smoke #night #weepingteatree #proprioception #teatree #paperbark
New conversion, to make mistakes, full spectrum. Wandering around the yard this afternoon. #fullspectrum looking forward to trying ultra violet when I get a filter eventually. And also trying fire photos.
Making space for something I can’t know. Gentle. #sensorimotordrawing #firestories #invisibles #unknowns #hope
Rethinks, tangles, weaves #sensorimotordrawing
Bodies of weather. The low pressure flattens the grass and swells my knees. The air is thick with invisible fullness. I sit and draw with both hands trying to map the space between the land within me and the passages moving through me. I hope eventually to remember how to listen properly, I’m sure somewhere inside me knows. I practice every day. Maybe that’s out of season. #oddclimes #readingtheweather #climate #bodiesofland #bodiesofwater #wedonttalkabouttheweather #storiesofmatter #firestories #windstories #weatherstories #barometricpressure #barometer #sensorimotordrawing #landscapedrawing #selfportrait #drawing #dualhandeddrawing #bilateraldrawing #photomontage #longexposure #weather #invisibles #drawingpractice
Thinking of these household deity works from 2015. (There were many) The detritus of parenting and illness keeping me comforted and smiling during difficult times. I think the conductors I’m making in my lounge at the moment are coming from a similar place - homemade remedies - or something. Do you have a homemade remedy for trouble?
#homemaderemedy #stayingwiththetrouble #householddeity #householddeities
Fireside 🔥
Things to orbit, remember..❤️🔥 #sensorimotordrawing #firestories #campfirestories
1. Oscillations, orbits. 2. Link farm self portrait 3. Early tech feedback fire business with @joetalia 4. Earliest tech. #sensorimotordrawing #firestories #campfirestories
Everything is speaking, (conductor) the matters of care. Mistletoe and plant ink, month long weather print on mulberry paper, (made in early lockdowns, on paper I can’t get anymore) stretched over bent garden bamboo. Plaited remnant eco dye silk, cut offs from clothing I make for myself. Plastic (old trees, coal) Xmas tree branch from hard rubbish in melb years ago, threaded with snake bones collected from the garden. All these different scales of time and urgency of meanings. I try to tend to it all with care. Australian native mistletoe is a keystone plant, and creates wildlife corridors- a food source, a soil fertiliser, a home for terraformers and pollinators, a world maker, a place to be sheltered, nurtured and woven and re-paired. Kabi Kabi Country #australiannativemistletoe #plantinks #mullberrypaper #conductors #homemaderemedy #cultureofcare #care #morethanhuman #symbiocene #homemade #repair #amplifynonhumans #everythingisspeaking #wallhanging #longrangeweatherprint #outdoorprint #plaiting #ecodye #ecoprint #xmastree #rune #snakebones #threads #weavingstructures #interwoven #matter #nurture #terraformers #interdependence #entanglement
And then it was gone, and no one said anything.
#firestories #howwetalkaboutthings #disappearing #phenomena #weather #campfirestories #wedonttalkabouttheweather #sensorimotordrawing #thedisappearing
Plasto-rune ( hard rubbish Xmas tree branch) to bone - to Plastorune, the cycles of life. #bones #petrolayer #oldtrees #coal #plastic #everythingisspeaking #plastolayer #rune #precious #christmastree #cycleoflife
Too many necklaces? These were lockdown fermented ink body/drawings/prints, they’ve sat in my studio growing since 2000/and/when/ever/that/was. I’ve covered them with pva and stretched them around bamboo @rossannels and I bent- which menacingly/protectively surrounds (very Kevin Costner) my house, and hung them using remnant fabrics from my extra-fashion homemade clothing leftovers. I’ve made little necklaces from leftover citrus skins and threaded them to copper conducting wire, amplifying their voices. And their supermarket protective packaging is luxuriously draped in between…These are some works that are coming together for a little show down the road (coz I don’t go further than a crow flys) at @fairhill_botanic_gardens they consider the fragility of things, and that everything is speaking, and is feeling the change of climes like all blooded beings. Working tenderly with these left overs is an act of care in a culture that is in great need of more of it. Everything is speaking. Please treat all/everything with care, including yourself. 💖💛💕 homemades on Kabi Kabi Country #fermentatedplantink #plantink #mullberrypaper #silk #ecodye #fruitpackaging #citrus #conductors #homemaderemedy #cultureofcare #care #morethanhuman #symbiocene #homemade #amplifynonhumans #climatefeels #drawing #inkdrawing #painting #everythingisspeaking #copper #homemadebattery #wallhanging
Everything is speaking, (conductor) putting together some garden works for @fairhill_botanic_gardens coming sometime when I get it sorted… it’s on the way 🤞🏽💚🖤🤎💛
Image ID: Mistletoe and grape ferment print in my garden on mulberry paper drum stretched around garden bamboo hung with remnant eco dye silk and plaited garden papyrus, and stabbed many times by the resident brush turkey, Kabi Kabi Country. #everythingisspeaking
(Again)… When I forget, ways to remember. Night forest, campfire stories, smoke scrying and star walking. Overlays of long exposure campfire snaps and dual handed sensorimotor drawing, feeling into the abyss, meeting myself in the dark again. #sensorimotordrawing #bilateraldrawing #campfirestories #abyss #interdependence #entanglement #wonder #symbiocene #abyssing #firestories #startalk #nightforest #forwheniforget #overlays #drawing #photomontage #dualhandeddrawing #composite
Last night camping. Bright even with a half moon. Fireflys in the bushes. More rain coming. The creeks still bare from the last high waters. Moon flares and smokebows. We took a 🌈 torch. Lighting wind, scrying smoke - the in-betweener, making visible unseens, reminding ourselves to keep the wonder, especially amidst the fxxkery. Charlie Moreland, Kabi Kabi Country. 🔥 #campfirestories #firestories #smokescrying
#Repost @rossannels with @use.repost
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I naively hoped this project would tell a rich and generous story, of deep time, of ancient culture, of continuing care of country, of the terrible consequences of colonisation, and of the continuity and generosity of both culture and of the biotic and human communities that surround these extraordinary beings. I have been hurt and disappointed by both the process and outcomes of the project, and I know that many other people have similarly been hurt and disappointed.
Discussions around representing Bunya in the new gallery of the Museum began with George Main and Jilda Andrews from the NMA myself and my then partner in 2017, and by early 2018 Bianca Beetson, Leah Barclay and myself were invited by the NMA to work on a “collaboration that delivers a large, artful installation capturing the form, aesthetic, spirit and meanings of the tree…”
In 2019 I met with members of New York based Local Projects who were engaged by the museum to design the new galleries, and began discussions with the museum about the possibility of casting bunya trees. Late 2019 I was approached by the Katalyst Group to construct trees for the new gallery. With the wisdom of hindsight, I very foolishly signed a contract that was very inadequate for the scale, complexity, and longevity of the project, and was shocked by the lack of artistic autonomy and respect for skills and experience and absence of cultural sensitivity that was inherent in the process that followed. There was a very very lengthy and painful process of design, debate, redesign, engineering and documentation to finally reach sign-off on construction drawings in February 2021. This process involved negotiating with members of the NMA team, Local Projects, Katalyst Group and Built (construction group). Throughout this process I felt that I (and Leah and Bianca) were treated as a general fabricator, rather than as artist and designer, and I felt we struggled to include and maintain any cultural content in the work. A direct arts contract with the NMA would have been much more appropriate..... Continues in comments on @rossannels page #lomandraplacestudios
Never what I expect #firestories #abyssing
Came across this long exposure shot of a far off beach fire gathering at night during lockdowns. Strange times. #firestories #longexposure #slowexposure
Making
If I think about it.
The places between us. Or we’re all in the plantation. (Detail, wip) The indentations we carry in our bodies, our lived experiences. The growth and environmental marks in hoop ply. The aliveness of bacterial/fermented plant inks. All reflected back to us. Sanded and drawn back in to. Drawing with machines, with fingers, with arms and body pressings, then weathering it all. The temperature, the rain, the shadows, what was said, the marks we make, post-more-than-humaning-whatever-we-are. Experiments. ⚡️
Image ID: Plant and bacterial inks stained into hoop ply sanded back, and drawn into with bilateral sensorimotor drawing.
#sensorimotordrawing #bilateraldrawing #graphite #plantinks #bioinks #drawing #hoopply #themarkswecarry Still got to wax it. #Experiments
Palms and palms making ways. After the floods, Booloumba Creek. Kabi Kabi Country. #palms #infraredforest #ir
Fire stories in forest. Head torches and campfire smoke. Getting so pro at it 🙃💖 #firestories #campfirestories #campfire #smokestories
Sleeps with fishes, bendy bendy, creek side post flood, scrub blood wood tunnels. Kabi Kabi Country, Little Yabba Creek #scrubbloodwood #floodbanks #floodlandscape #baloghiainophylla
Love song 🎵 🎶❤️🔥 #greatbarredfrog #firestories #lovesong
Fire stories. Misty lit smoke in flooded burnt Country. I thought I could hold something tenderly in this climate/corporate catastrophe. But had to let go of that good willing whatever... as if I wasn’t living in the human disaster machine. Not separate from plantation razed, flood tangled, fire stripped ground. Rest here human, remember who you are, we’re all going down together, we’ll collapse into each other. ❤️🔥 #entropy #wereallgoingdowntogether #firestories #collapsingtogether #ecologicaltransition #illstoptheworldandmeltwithyou #fire #flood #symbiocene #campfirestories
#bilateral #sensorimotordrawing on #hoop #plywood just before I soaked it in #plantinks and then I’ll sand it back and see what happens. Adventures. ⚡️