Backyard conjuring β‘οΈπ
Cunjevoi joy πβ¨π
Weather patterns, a remedy. The etiology of intergenerational disasters. If I think of them as meteorological patterns, the individual fuxkery dissipates, and so does their agency. While it helps me, not trying to understand all the horror, they are really against nature, theyβre sociological patterns. And I think our disconnect spins them into cultural cataclysm. Part of my drawing making practice is to rebalance myself with my environment, fall into its fold. Reunite myself with the way of things.
Sensorimotor drawing and cut outs of Country overlaid on plant ink blots.
#societalpatterns #intergenerationalpatterns #climate #weatherpatterns #swarms #etiology #sensorimotordrawing #dualhandeddrawing #photomontage #drawing #plantink #theshapeofthings #culturaltraumaiscollectivetrauma #intergenerationaltrauma #masspsychogenicillness
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Glossy black Pterodactyls Wallum side πππΆ
Spring β€οΈβπ₯
All time sleeps here.
(ID: Sensorimotor drawing overlaid in Kabi Kabi country where an immense terraforming event wove oceans with mountains. The drawing considers the chaotic pattern interference, and the quiet marks of distant chaos. Sensorimotor dual handed drawing, overlaid in geological photomontage.) #sensorimotordrawing #dualhandeddrawing #drawing #photomontage
Ferny soft feels ππΏ
For the longest time, news from the carboniferous accretionary wedge, as best I can, presently. #accretionarywedge #carboniferous #longtime #thebigwave #reptilian #amygdala #symbiocene #sensorimotordrawing #dualhandeddrawing
(ID: For the longest time, news from the carboniferous accretionary wedge, as best I can, presently. πΏ
Dual handed sensorimotor drawing overlaid on an image of Kabi Kabi Country where an accretionary wedge has caused cascades and many complex rock πͺ¨ formations. Being with this place, trying to reflect on this current complexity in time. Slowing myself down to be with rock time. Trying to read what is happening around me in slower motion and with the view of old mountains, β° rather than the closeness of emerging volcanoes.
Maybe..)
When things are all too big, my love takes me in his little house, that he made, and we look at things that are bigger. Very grateful, Thanks @rossannels β€οΈβ€οΈβ€οΈβ€οΈ Kabi Kabi Country
Gentle and fierce and enormous and complex. Conondale National Park, Kabi Kabi Country. ππΏ
A complexity of time slowed into stones
Dewy morning at the end of the street. The little birds were having baths. If you put the sound up you can hear some of the ambience. ππΏβ°
A very hard thing to say. Iβve shown compassion for others, but now need to show it for myself and people like me. I am immune compromised, if you choose not to vaccinate, you put myself, and others like me at risk. If youβre against vaccination please keep your distance or be very careful and considerate around me, and anyone else you donβt know, who may also live with a condition that makes them vulnerable. Thanks.
And I have to remember there are then places loved back to life. π This was a goat π farm when I was a kid. And then they wanted to concrete the waterfall πand put units on it. Now itβs a reserve and Its being loved up. Hope youβre being loved up too.
Ninderry waterfall. A quiet little place (mostly) at the end of the street. Kabi Kabi Country β¨ππΏπβ°
Not everything is for humans.
Weβre a part of things, not every thing.
Dual handed sensory drawing, photomontage, layered images of recently visited places at risk. #sensorimotordrawing #dualhandeddrawing #drawing #photomontage #placesatrisk #psychogeography #symbioscene #noteverythingisforhumans #theedges #patternsinnaturΔ
Not everything in this world is for humans. Sitting at the edge of logged, farmed and mined forest, and itβs immeasurable compassion of still holding counsel with me, despite everything.
Most Human cultures have stories of monsters in the landscape, theyβre often signifiers of protection. Something that needs to be guarded. Something that may harm us if we pass through it, or needs to be contained. We have infantilised the monsters and can no longer see places and beings who need to be treated with care. Weβve ignored and killed the monsters, in a belief that everywhere is for us.
We just arenβt the only beings on this planet. There are places that should be left alone. (Covid 19 came from bats that had been mapped on the edge of deforestation). These cautions, these monsters, are human oral wisdoms, age old wisdoms in attempt to keep us safe. Destroying our oral story traditions, keeps us in the dark about places that were deemed off limits for our own protection. Not everywhere is for humans. But we do need to speak with place, to know. We arenβt the only beings on this planet. And the very beings we rely on to breathe are being destroyed at an unprecedented rate.
A monster untended to in our psyche wreaks havoc. Tend to your monsters. Tend to our monsters. Not everything in the world is for humans.
Love your monsters. ππΈππΏ
βPeople who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.β
Ursula K. Le Guin.
Amamoor, despite everything.
Like clockwork, our resident Monitor Lizard (whoβs about 1.5m) appears sunning itself after wintering in the large stump. Each year, to the week, if not the day, for the 5 years Iβve been back at the coast, it appears now. The callistemon also resume flowering. Hinting, the cold is mostly over, and weather will become friendlier to the amphibious and reptilian. If you listen the frogs are also singing. Kabi Kabi Country. πΈ πΆ π¦ π³ #monitorlizard #goanna #frogs #subtropicalseasonchange #subtropical #seasonchange
Innards for all the ins. ππππ
The interdependence of things. Carved golden mistletoe and bottlebrush haustoria, on graphite and water dual handed sensory drawing on paper with plant inks. #sensorimotordrawing #symbiocene #callistemon #goldenmistletoe #haustoria #dualhandeddrawing #drawing interdependence
Rock bones bloom. All the times are under your feet. Reflections Ninderry. Kabi Kabi Country #shadowsandlight #timelayers #sensorimotordrawing #photomontage #dualhandeddrawing #drawing #patterns #deeptime #lockdowndrawing #regeneration #layersoftime #symbiocene
Down the bottom of the hill, opal waters, creek side love. Regeneration in process. πππ some wonky video sound vibes in the last shot. πΏβ¨πΏ
That time of year. Turkey is making a wall across my driveway, Snakes are waking, bees are swarming. Busy busy.
Tending to night. Finding patterns in the dark, sensing my way home.ππΏβ°γ°οΈπ€πΈπβ¨ #sensorimotordrawing #dualhandeddrawing #photomontage
Mistletoe @ MaMu skywalk π happy international tree day ππΏπ
EDIT: Iβm obviously terrible at being subtle. But my Mum died a few years ago. This was a comment on death being indiscriminate. She was an extremely positive, very spiritual, determined person. And could not comprehend something like this happening to her. Iβve posted it at the moment because the misinformation and ableism and toxic positivity around health and covid is reminding me of this terrible time. I apologise if youβve thought she just passed. I understand that this is a difficult time. But wanted to say as gently as I could, death does not discriminate.
Roadsider post apocalypse birthing, if we let it πΏπ
Sunday creek road, sun down, on our Sunday, which is Wednesday. Return from visiting forest friends, side of road cup of tea. πΏπβ¨π ππWith @rossannels #conondalenationalpark #kabikabicountry #forestsunset #photoid ID: sunset in subtropical forest, large forest trees and vines silhouette the purples, oranges, pinks and yellows of sunset, a road heads back into the forest.
Down at the bottom of the mountain. This side was a goat farm when I was a kid. Thankfully it was saved as a reserve not long ago. They wanted to concrete the waterfall and put in units. Unbelievable. BushCare has been doing some wonderful work in past few years. Itβs a richly wondrous and sacred place. I learn so much just sitting with it. Iβm always amazed how full the world is even in my slow slow slow pace. Kabi Kabi Country.
ID: Regenerated lowland rainforest after farming. Mossy granite creek bed with vines and rainbows.
Done x 2 grateful β€οΈ
Used to be like this on most beachfronts when I was a kid. Now thereβs houses, or canals. I had an olfactory hallucination of coconut oil, (pretend 70βs sunscreen), thatβs how similar it was.
A place to speak with your fears, itβs ok to be scared. ππ€πΏ #sensorimotordrawing #landscapemontage #photomontage #drawing #overlays #densityofplace I will try to ID this pic. I may fail. But will give it a go!!!
ID: Soma sensory automatic dual handed drawing (daily practice) overlaying transparent landscape photographs, of creeks, forests, waterfalls, and rocks, these are also overlaid, these images are in black and white. One triangle shape of a rock is in colour and floating within the image. It is a bit like a twin of one of the other rock images in the overlaid black and white imagery. Some of the overlaid images are so heavily layered they form borders where they meet, because of the density of the imagery. There are many abstract patterns within the images because of the overlays.
The bright blue wall, light and stone, the netherworld of Ninderry.
And finally this. At the top of Ninderry waterfall, we managed to only travel about a 2km radius from home, but move through many worlds. These rock patterns Iβve see also at Bunya Mountains waterfalls. All the places knowing each other. πππ
Birthday Mistletoe Haustoria!! @fairhill_botanic_gardens were kind enough to let us take the giant dead baby sized haustoria down. It was in a Euodia, which Iβve not found before. The Euodia had nearly completely encased the mistletoe. Thanks to my love @rossannels for climbing the ladder and pole sawing, and to @fairhill_botanic_gardens for letting us take it. Iβll be carving it into a keystone for my show on interdependence and the symbiocene in Lismore early next year. ππΏ I havenβt idβd the mistletoe yet coz I was too tired after the best bday. Thanks @rossannels π§‘β€οΈβ€οΈβ¨
I canβt ever capture this giant wall of black stone at the base of Ninderry waterfall. Itβs elusive and full. It bounces light and is uncontainable but looks like snippets of a window box. The spring from an ancient Pangean mountain., a sheer cliff of black rock surrounded by moss, lichen, and subtropical vine forest. A very alive place that needs you to ask, every time, how it wants to be with you. The wall looks sloping in these shots but is quite a sheer face.
Patterns, layers, interwoven, interdependence, just prior to entropic collapse, the one with the little mushroom was not far from becoming soil, now a mummification of decomposing layers. Mycelium threads, light mauve fungi growing through barks, mistletoe stars, tree rays and rings, all the patterns converging, ants sometimes walk out, sometimes spiders, once some termites. These mistletoe haustoria keystones are works for part of a show Iβm slowly putting together for Elevator Ari in Lismore early next year. ππ
Midwinter sunβs warm orange parting nightβs cool pink. 80βs abstract sunrise. Lovely frozen footed waddle with @rossannels π
Sky mountains draw rivers, one thing on another, and youβre next to me. #dualhandeddrawing #sensorimotordrawing #thewayofthings #bodybarometer #overlays #drawing #photomontage
Road side stop, south Maroochy River, Jinibara Country thanks @mimburi_dreaming πΏ
A little vision from the sea forest. #beavercay #beaverreef #greatbarrierreef
Drawing with the dark, and my breath a wobbly tripod. Bird sounds move my pen. Stars glow in the cold subtropical creek. #photomontage #sensorimotordrawing #dualhandeddrawing #drawing #overlays
Update: Rotted Jackfruit! Thanks @jimmartin.artist !! β¦previously., Anyone? Looks a bit like a crows ash pod with snake eggs. But itβs too big- the pod. Weird other sort of seed pod? Reptile eggs in fallen epiphyte of some sort? Dug up rhizome with bulbs or eggs? Something else completely? 25-30cm length hard to say what diameter may have been, coz scattered. Under a tree near a hollow log unsure if itβs been unearthed or fallen? Love to know your thoughts. Near Kenilworth, Qld #reptileeggs #bulbs #rhizomes #fungi #seeds #epiphyte #Flindersiapimenteliana out of place with snakes eggs? #jackfruit
Lovely merging of was and is, the patterns of in between, a leaf becoming fungi. β¨πΏ
Dual handled sensorimotor drawing. I do this daily. Two hands, both working independently and in union, both with different ways in the world, but working together to perceive, act, move through, stay with. I learn so much just noticing my bihaptic bipedalism and itβs affects on my perception. Makes me wonder about the perception of cephalopods, and then I need a lie down. Scanning some notepads. #dualhandeddrawing #sensorimotordrawing #bihapticperception #hapticperception #cephlapods #multihaptic #multipedialism #octopedal
Home again home again. Maroochyβs tears , Kabi Kabi Country πππ ##southmaroochyriver #kiamba
Bodies entwine, land and flesh. Nothing is independent. Care for Country is care for people. Rainforests and coral flash through my eyes when I hold you.ππΏπ¬ππ β°π§β‘οΈπ₯ππ #alwayswasalwayswillbeπ€πβ€οΈ #photomontage #rainforests #coral
MaMu skywalk, a weaving of wisdom and care. Knowledge that can only come from tens of thousands of years observation and interdependence. Mamu Country, Ma:mu owned and operated. Thank you π€πβ€οΈ#healcountry #naidocweek #mamuskywalk #mamu