Ways, pattern of things. #drawing #overlays #plantinks #fermentedinks #patterns #sensorimotordrawing #nightheron #digitalmontage #notimetorush
#girraweennationalpark patterns meeting
@ima_brisbane today to participate in @caitlinfranzmann and @katewallgardening talk on #subtropical #weeds, excellent to see something specific to this area with Kates book, Working with weeds, so glad to have gotten a copy. Plus the beautiful exhibition of @caitlinfranzmann which includes flowers essences of #cannalily or #Achira and what I’m guessing would be a #cymatic playing of these culturally laden seeds in the next room. Then - On fire: Climate and crisis show with the amazing work of @naomiblackloc #Lecanomancy - loved so much. One of my fav forms of #Augury - a truly beautiful work 🖤🖤🪨🐚 also the smouldering works of #daleharding And the powerful, but I find always generatively nurturing work of @hannahbronte - Umma’s Tongue–Molten 🔥🔥🔥⚡️⚡️⚡️✨✨✨ amongst other greats.
Over, under waves, plant shadows and inks, dual handed drawing, listening in between 🐚🪨🍃#sensorimotordrawing #plantinks #layersinbetween #waves
I made a giant nib from a grass tree stem that had been hollowed by a borer, and some 2m long bamboo nibs so I could stand far away from the smelly inks I brew. These images are dual handed drawings with dam water and plant ink poured over them, the lay of the land and the wind directing them. The inks change as they blend with each other, so I have no idea what will happen and it changes over time and the length of the brew. This looks all 🔥 now, but will prob mellow to brown and green or purple. Something different will appear in the next few days. I never know. The inks were brewed from a variety of things some are #mistletoe #pomegranate #bunya tree #bark #eucalyptusblossom #eucalyptusleaves #mushrooms #foxtailpalmberries #umbrellatreeberries and various additives like #vinegar #coppersulphate #ironsulphate #bicarb #bamboowater #xanthorrhoea #nib #homemadenibs
Selfie as a forest. We are the edge of the forest. #selfie #forest #wearenaturedefendingitself #wearenature #horizontalgenetransfer #microbiome #microfauna #wearetheedgeoftheforest
Drum circle in the dark at Coolum beach middle of covid times, one giant humanness of sound in the dark, lit only with a fire twirler. Such an odd thing. I couldn’t see them with my naked eyes. Like stars in the sky, lightened, and there they are. Messy overlapping flesh, leaves and light.
All the patterns! Granite, lichen, Sheoak, cypress, tea tree, shade, light, mumma rock 🖤🪨
Following the bend in the Merri, A waterfall of bones, and When I was the forest there was nothing I could not love. Home again. Thankful for the places that have taught me how to become home. 💚💚💚
Bit of rock love #girraween #ganite #bouldercreek these pics are not so bouldery more creeky but it is definitely slow time 💚🖤 🪨
Another waterfall of bones, wood water and termite carved from the dry waterfall, snake vertebrae bones and repurposed tigers eye and tourmaline, from my mothers necklace. #homejewels #necklace #bones #creekwood #termitewood #waterworn
I have a smaller version of this work, Waterfall of Bones, showing @stanthorpeartgallery #stanthorpeartprize opening this Friday 19th and is on until the 18 April. We are heading up for the opening and after a night in town, off to Girraween national park - I haven’t been to for 30 years or so. The second image is a pic I took of balancing rock circa 1992, I’m guessing these granite time travellers haven’t moved much in that time. #girraweennationalpark #balancingrock #sensorimotordrawing #dualhandeddrawing #digitalsilkprint
A lovely tangle 💚
Resident lace monitor, after some egg eating, hoping I had more. This one is nearly 2 meters long. They are like dinosaur puppies. 💚🦎 #lacemonitor #lacemonitorlizard
Under terra, (pines, water) gentle retracing - mending, dogeared bodily documents, #dualhanded, #drawing #layers #pineplantation #dam #soldiersettlement #pineapplefarm #bodymemory #sensorimotordrawing #mending #soma #theshapeofthings #dirt
For lovely Bird song, sound on 🎼 ‘We the ecosystem’. Here after a fire devastated much of the area in late 2019. This small verge of forest in between state park and forestry operations, clambers to regenerate itself. The land around here is visibly traumatised: fire, misuse, machinery, lack of education of Country, defunct and brutal colonial land management systems. This little plot holds part of what would have been rainforest and has remnant Bunya, Silky oaks, quandongs etc. After the fires, the older trees left in these minute spaces dropped many seeds, waiting for the rain and for the creeks to flow again. If in our ‘renewable’ forestry management we could just leave some old trees, to hold the ground, to leave a lineage, to hold the wisdom of the history of weather, disease, knowledge and patterns of the area, it would make a large difference to the resilience of the forest community. This is now science, but known by pre colonial communities for aeons. If you’ve held a 400 year old tree compared to holding a 40 year old tree there is a slowness and depth of feeling that is hard to explain. I wish we would acknowledge the sensory information that is all around us, the sensory information in our bodies, and the larger being we live with, this Country, this ecosystem, and our place in it. We are a convergence of life. We are not separate. #convergence #australianfires #wearetheecosystem #wearenature #forestry #oldtrees #landcare #ourlungs #ourfuture #ourpast #life thanks @rossannels for holding this 🖤
Thinking of these little ones, my first venture back into the art world after some time. @mailboxartspace in 2019 thanks dear @l00ming for giving me the opportunity to enter the bustling world again. Four little works in a set considering how I felt Be/Coming Home. These works are records of the deep reverence that can exist between bodies of land and flesh - petitions against the destruction of their unity. Love poems to Country, teaching me to come home, teaching me to become home. These works are made on/with Kabi Kabi/Gubbi Gubbi Country, using sensorimotor drawing, they are the shapes of my body’s story with this place. #sensorimotordrawing #drawing #becominghome #lovepoems #soma #silkprints
This night, many years ago, the air held fragrances I hadn’t smelt. Somatic drawing, dual handed, overlaid in places that are separate but similar. No story is straight. #sensorimotordrawing #overlays #olfactorymemory #thisplacedifferenttime #drawing #dualhandeddrawing #theshapeofthings #somaticplaces
Thinking about #drawings with #Sheoak #mistletoe #haustoria as nib via #branch #lichen and #moss.
Invisible possum
Rainy afternoon shore wander, gentle time 🧡
Self soothing. Dual handed (left and right together), soma shapes, finger patting/painting, graphite powder, charcoal from bushfires, plant inks, dam water #drawing #graphite #plantinks #soma #theshapeofthings #sensorimotordrawing
#Fungi and #borers inbetweeners
Frottaged Bunya with charcoal from fallen burnt trees surrounding it on Kabi Kabi Country. A fire went through this area at the end of 2019. Most of what wasn’t burnt was cut down for $. A tiny corridor remains and the trees that are left weep sap from the heat and stress, insects attack them. Weeds have filled the burnt ground. Life is trying again everywhere. This rubbing was done with great care, with the intention of dressing a wound, and witnessing a story. This area in particular has been poorly managed by private forestry companies that care only for $. I’ve visited these trees several times since the fires, I want them to be cared for. Sap bleeds onto the paper marked with the ashes of its neighbours. This area should be rainforest, creeks run through bulldozed land. It’s heart breaking, I’m sorry this is not a happy story. But, as always this Bunya leaves an impression on me and the paper, that feels heartwarming, graceful and hopeful, despite everything. I wish we could return the generosity. 💚💚💚🌱 #wearenature #symbiocene #australianfires #forestry #bunya #frottage
I don’t celebrate violence. This is a painful day that continues to violate. Sending so much love 🖤💛❤️
Vine, palm and fern waterfall. Sunday creek road Conondale national park. Dallambara: Gubbi Gubbi, Kabi, Jinibara Country, bunya season, not many around this year.
Not here not there, a thin place in between.
Night sky #bunyamountains looking east. I think the #andromedagalaxy is visible in the top right corner, my astro son tells me. And a shooting star down the bottom right. I was a bit too slow setting up to get all the wonders visible in the sky that night, only have the tail end of the #darkemu but it’s always so lovely to see the sky a little slower. You’ll have to forgive my poor colour management, it’s a bit blown 🙄🌈. #shootingstar #nightsky #newmoon #galaxy #milkyway #astrophotographyaustralia #astrophotography #alwayswasalwayswillbe #wakkawakka #Jarowair #Barrumgum
Laid back red belly black, snake week, more Bunya love. 🖤🐍 Which is I think #mullu in #wakkawakka ❤️ but please correct me if I’m wrong. 💚 #redbellyblacksnake #redbelliedblacksnake
Bunya leaf portable pop up solar projection? #shadowsandlight #bunya #solarprojection
#python curling morning 💚🐍 #carpetpython #bunyamountains #wakkawakkacountry #BoobarranNgummin #jarowaircountry #BarrumgumCountry
Talented wood borer #woodborer which one?