One of my favourite places 🌿💚 so many rich underlays and overlays like a pool of growth in the tree tops and in the soil and everywhere in between. Kabi Kabi Country.
The flux of things. I fall apart. I come back together. The space in between. #sensorimotordrawing #photomontage #flux #thespacebetweenus #drawing #collage #landscape #findingthewayhome #weatherpatterns
Some little bits polished of pieces that were small off cuts of mistletoe or things I literally nearly fell over on the ground. Still not sure what some are or what I will do with them. Hoping to make myself a large (like me) necklace!! But like holding them in my hand too. Like little gemstone. ❤️ #australiannativemistletoe #redcedar #banksiaroot #termiteredrivergum #riverwood #australiannativeplants #australiannativetimber
Daily ground radio, finding a place to listen to the way of things. The interference is real, takes a bit to get past the big scary noise. I disconnect and disassociate, paralyse in sensory overwhelm, shake inside. So I go listen to leaves, feel the density of the air, watch the bees, the clouds, the light and shadows, listening to the crickets and the wind touching everywhere, wondering where the mountain begins. Asking each hand how they’d like to move, and eventually I begin to move with things again. Thankful to have these things bring me back here - often after many attempts. Hope you’re all doing ok. 💚🌿✨🌧 #sensorimotordrawing #symbiocene #bacterialintelligence #landscapepatterns #weathersystems #biome #microclimate #soma #theshapeofthings #dualhandeddrawing #drawing #listening #makingaspaceforyourself #sensoryintelligence #cptsd #conversiondisorder #sensorysoothing #stimming #groundradio #graphitedrawing
Closer than I think. Sometimes when we touch. #patterns #entanglement #paths #sensorimotordrawing #photomontage #drawing #dualhandeddrawing #soma #edges #betweenus #symbiocene #needyoumorethanever #landscapephotography #overlays
Pinhole #pinhole #pinholecamera
Desire lines: The shortest path through, animal tracks, seasonal creeks, bodies in the dark. #entanglement #thewaythingsmove #desirelines #paths #sensorimotordrawing #symbiocene #drawing #dualhandeddrawing #bacterialintelligence #photomontage #naturepatterns #scrying
Fire and rain in the forest at night. Both things heart filling in balance. 🔥 🌧
Went down the back to check out the creek and try out my new extra wide lens. Bit of cyclone Seth wetness. Not too much yet. But this is small spring/seasonal that creek drops off the edge of the mountain at the waterfall. Had to be careful not to fall into gooey crayfish holes. They’re very happy with this wet. 🦞⛈
This time last year #bunyamountains #shadowsandlight #reflections #bunyas #skymirror #winddrawing
Time to give yourself a little hug. 💚🌿💚🌿 #yugembehcountry
Two “bookshelves” of silky oak, a beautiful read. 💛🧡🤎 #lomandraplacestudios thanks @rossannels #silkyoak
Underneath it all. 🖤 #sensorimotordrawing #patterns #betweenus #drawing #landscapephotography #overlays #interdependence #intersection #naturepatterns #convergence #psychogeography #bacterialintelligence #dualhandeddrawing #photomontage #theways #listening #somashape #soma #theshapeofthings
We’re all so vast and entangled 💚🌿 thanks ancient forest for the reminder. Yugambeh County 🪨 #cooltemperaterainforest #gondwanarainforest #ancientforest #antarcticbeechforest #entaglement #springbrook #edgeofsubtropical
Wishing those who need it, a bat cave with a waterfall for the festive season. 🦇🌲🪨🌊 #naturalbridge
Yugambeh Country, waterfalls, caves, balancing rocks, 2000 year old trees, lots of triangles 🔼 🌲💚✨🌿🌊🪨 #twinfallsspringbrook #antarcticbeechtrees #waterfalls #caves #balancingrocks
Yugambeh Country, Antarctic Beech trees, waterfalls, balancing rocks. #twinfallsspringbrook #Antarcticbeech #waterfalls #caves #rocks #temperaterainforest #subtropicalrainforest #canyon
A big walk for a challenged walker, nearly didn’t make it, thanks @rossannels for holding my hand and waiting so gently with me. But look!! Twin Falls underneath. Such a special place. 🌊🪨💙 #twinfallsspringbrook #springbrook #springbrooknationalpark
Early morning visit to some elders, 2000 year old antarctic beech trees, Yugambeh Country 💚🌿✨🌞 #antarcticbeechtrees #antarcticbeechforest #cooltemperaterainforest #subtropical
I am not either but we are, thank you #interdependence #mistletoe #australiannativemistletoe #symbiocene #sensorimotordrawing #montage #photomontage #layers #overlays #biomes #gathering #drawing #collage #relationships #therelationofthings #patterns #microclimate
All these ways between us, walking together, the interdependence of things, becoming home 🌿✨💚 #overlays #biomes #inbetween #withus #photomontage #collage #sensorimotordrawing #bacterialwisdom #transposons #patterns #layers #drawing #symbiocene
Morning dew blots and dual handed drawing, the way home. #sensorimotordrawing #patterns #dualhandeddrawing #inkblots #dewdrops #rorschach #currents #weatherpatterns #drawing
If you’re in Brisbane Thursday night I have 4 small works in this show at Side Gallery in Red Hill. Pop along and have some sparkles for me. There’s lots of small affordable works for Xmas too, supporting artists is the gift that keeps on giving. The works I have are from a series called Be/Coming Home from 2019. The 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. Made on Kabi Kabi Country. Sensorimotor drawing and landscape montages on silk with silky oak hangers. 💚🌿✨
#Repost @thesidegallery
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'Glimpse' — End of Year Smalls Group Show
Opening night Thursday 9 Dec 6 – 8 pm 🥂
Exhibition dates: 9 – 24 Dec
The annual Side Gallery end of year show is titled ‘glimpse’ for the 2021 iteration. As always, the exhibition is a “smalls” work collection.
Curated by @laura__who
#bneart #brisbaneart #thisisbrisbane #brisbane #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #australianartists #australianartistsnetwork #sidegallery #brisbanegallery #brisbanegalleryspace #projectart #artabouttown #artspace #designstudio #artanddesign #designfront #sidegallerybrisbane #fineart #artcommission #leesahickey #designfront
Overflow. Some things won’t be contained. Seasonal creeks, untamed spectres of ways. Patterns at the edge of our bodies remembering how to be here despite everything. #sensorimotordrawing #overlays #overflow #thewayofthings #symbiocene #patterns #flooding #seasonalcreeks #bodymemory #soma #somatic #waterfalls #edges #tides #ghostrivers #ghostriverscryer #mists #untamedspectres
Woonoongoora, Yugambeh Country 2018
We all need each other.
I visited this site, unexpectedly again yesterday, things are greener, the older trees are regaining strength. The Bunyas, feel to me like mammals, they have such deep connections with people, sacred to all bordering First Nations communities here, including Kabi Kabi/Gubbi Gubbi, Jinibara and Wakka Wakka, they have been in relationship with humans for as long as is known. So much we could learn.
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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 indigenous 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 #weallneedeachother thanks @rossannels for holding this 🖤
Flood waters on the creek bank look like a haze, but closer there’s a turtle and the next shot jumps in. 💚🐢 #KrefftsTurtle #EmyduraKrefftii #KrefftsShortneckedTurtle #KrefftsRiverTurtle
More than this. Overlays of fire devastated logged areas and protected areas, cloud formations, weather patterns and soma/sensory- sensorimotor drawing. The image of devastated logged areas weeds burst through with regrow the despite everything. Their aliveness in so much destruction, was defiant. #symbiocene #weatherpatterns #beingness #sensorimotordrawing #beingnessofclimate #theshapeofthings #somasensory
I forget sometimes that this ancient body of awe is always hiding behind trees in my yard. I walked to the end of the street this morning to see the clouds pass. 220million years old, once facing Antarctica as a part of Gondwanaland. Kabi Kabi Country 💚🌿✨
Do they miss you #absences #presences #longing #repair #relationships #beingness #sensorimotordrawing
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Linger on #sensorimotordrawing #patterns #thewayofthings #goldenlight #absencespresences #drawing #photomontage
The dawn of Ram, 2009. A post apocalyptic/human museum window pieced together by chimpanzees. @busprojects just before I became bed ridden for a few years. There’s a great soundtrack, faux nature sounds made from computer operating systems, games and the old dial up noise. Couldn’t help but think of this and meta. It’s the monkey in me that made me wanna do it. 🤎🦧https://soundcloud.com/bmbourke/dawn-of-r-a-m #dawnofram #dawnofman #posthuman #museums #museumwindowbox #chimpanzees #planetoftheapes #Plastiglomerate #geology #archeology #art #speculativearcheology #speculativefiction
School pick up. Admiring the intricacies of polished mistletoe jewel in the sun, making a few small pieces for a necklace. 💎🪵🌿💚 #mistletoe #australiannativemistletoe #interdependence #jewels
Studio cleaning. Ah, you big scary loveable mouldy bacterial heaps… like us all. 🙃 #plantinks #mould #bacteria #biomes #studio
An oldy. Home remedies, magical thinking. ✨ #magicalthinking #domestic #homemade #ifwisheswerehorses
Mistletoe really burns the sander. Coincidentally I’m making them into heart warming stones❤️🔥 They’re also sometimes considered a sign that Country needs fire 🔥 #mistletoe #sanding #fire #australianmistletoe #heartwarming #lomandraplacestudios #brushbox #boxmistletoe
Gentle porous heart #porosity #interdependence #symbiocene #bodies
Every time you go away, you take a piece of me with you. ⚡️💚🌿 #repair #relationships #reversemagic #youbreatheoutibreathein #absencepresnces #whatisleft #forests #subtropicalforests #capitalistromanticism #symbiocene
A little remnant logged the hell out of many times. Where rainforest was cleared, complete eucalypt forests return. You move from tree ferns to flooded gums as you cross an invisible bureaucratic logging line. Maybe often, like now, the devastating visual impacts of logging were hid behind stands of visually appeasing forest. Driving behind the thin veil of the national park there is massive devastation from industry. We came across what @rossannels recognised as an old logging ramp, with flat compacted soil above. Even surrounded by the areas that are now protected, we could see once there had been an absolute overwhelming obsessive uncontrolled frenzy of extraction. This little creek with regrowth, was a hopeful place, but maybe just a distraction from what is happening everywhere behind these fragments. These hopeful places get smaller, and no one seems to be checking if industry is being held accountable. Kabi Kabi Country #logging #hqplantations #remnantforest #sustainabletimber #theybreatheoutwebreathein
Tears in the rain. Hindsight. 80’s reverse magic. Romantic capitalism. Do you really want to hurt me?
Remnant forest and plantation within the same valley. HQ plantation burns off the native forests that surround their hoop plantations to protect their financial resources. Wouldn’t it be good if remnant forest was actually considered the valuable resource that it really is. 😓🌿
Morning clouds 🌞🌊☁️🌈
Camp fire after the rain, mist, smoke, head torch, raindrops, twilight. ✨🌧🔥🌈 Kabi Kabi Country #fog #mist #smoke #rain #subtropicalrainforest #light #twilight
A big old cedar (toona ciliata) host to so many epiphytes in their branches and mosses and fungi and lichens in their roots. Such an important community member in what is only a small remnant-ish rainforest, mostly piccabeens and a little clear running creek, layers of life everywhere, in between desolate hq plantations 😓 Kabi Kabi Country. #australianredcedar #toonaciliata
Like photos of ghosts, hard to capture. In your absence, our loss. Charcoal from burnt subtropical rainforest rubbed into lantern paper and wet. A spectre of what was, and what remains. 🖤🪵 Such a spectre I can’t photograph it. #subtropicalrainforest #absence #presences #whatremains #ourloss #carbon #ournature #symbiocene #wearebound #sorryforyourloss #photosofghosts
Both things are true. 🐍 Each day I draw dual-handed, focusing on my body’s expression of this place, in this time. I use it to keep my cptsd at a reasonable level and to work out what world my sensory body is receiving/perceiving. After becoming immobile I studied sensorimotor art therapy, and combined it with some archeoaucostic theories and surrealist practices, amongst other things. It keeps me with myself, in this time, in this place, as best I can, a nonverbal record of the earth moving me. #therecordofthetime #sensorimotordrawing #dualhandeddrawing #drawing #dailypractice #nonverballanguage #boththingsaretrue #drawingpractice #emptyandfull
I need you more than ever….2021 (montage, sensorimotor drawing, weather systems, Country) Pop culture's focus on longing and love as an expression of the tragedy of our relationship with ourselves and our environment. Connection to Country is ignored in colonial/capitalist systems, as way of negating its value on one hand while stealing it with the other. This disconnection furthers everyone within the system from agency, power, and belonging. These Love songs to Country are a collation of embodied marks, ephemeral weather systems, and places I visit on Kabi Kabi, Jinibara and Wakka Wakka Country which remind me of our unbreakable embrace. They are an emotional and popularist plea to re-pair ourselves with our environment.
#sensorimotordrawing #digitalmontage #landscape #ournature #weathersystems #patterns #drawing #dualhandeddrawing #embodiedmarks #montage #naturepatterns #ineedyoumorethanever #breakingupwithourselves #emotional #auspol #alwayswasalwayswillbe #symbiocene
Pretty nice sunrise even from behind the mountain. I imagine ocean side would be pretty spectacular. 🌞🌄excuse my fingerprint on the screen 🤭 maybe a bit soft vas lensing accidentally.
Ferning out of my mind, Kabi Kabi Country #ferns #subtropicalrainforest