EDIT: I’m 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. I’ve 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 you’ve 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 🌿💚
Sunday creek road, sun down, on our Sunday, which is Wednesday. Return from visiting forest friends, side of road cup of tea. 🌿💚✨🌈 🌞💓With @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. It’s a richly wondrous and sacred place. I learn so much just sitting with it. I’m 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 ❤️
Used to be like this on most beachfronts when I was a kid. Now there’s houses, or canals. I had an olfactory hallucination of coconut oil, (pretend 70’s sunscreen), that’s how similar it was.
A place to speak with your fears, it’s ok to be scared. 💚🖤🌿 #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 I’ve see also at Bunya Mountains waterfalls. All the places knowing each other. 💚💚💚
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 I’ve 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. I’ll be carving it into a keystone for my show on interdependence and the symbiocene in Lismore early next year. 💚🌿 I haven’t id’d the mistletoe yet coz I was too tired after the best bday. Thanks @rossannels 🧡❤️❤️✨
I can’t ever capture this giant wall of black stone at the base of Ninderry waterfall. It’s 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 I’m slowly putting together for Elevator Ari in Lismore early next year. 💛🌞
Midwinter sun’s warm orange parting night’s cool pink. 80’s abstract sunrise. Lovely frozen footed waddle with @rossannels 💖
Sky mountains draw rivers, one thing on another, and you’re next to me. #dualhandeddrawing #sensorimotordrawing #thewayofthings #bodybarometer #overlays #drawing #photomontage
Road side stop, south Maroochy River, Jinibara Country thanks @mimburi_dreaming 🌿
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 !! …previously., Anyone? Looks a bit like a crows ash pod with snake eggs. But it’s 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 it’s 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. ✨🌿
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 it’s 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. Maroochy’s tears , Kabi Kabi Country 💚💚💚 ##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.💚🌿🌬🌊🐠⛰🌧⚡️🔥🌙🌏 #alwayswasalwayswillbe🖤💛❤️ #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 🖤💛❤️#healcountry #naidocweek #mamuskywalk #mamu
Ciao FNQ thanks for the local lovin @janeheraghty 💚🐊⛰🌿✨
Loved the crab art at Etty Bay. First and best gallery I’ve been in for about 2 years. 😱 But they got the moves. @irenegrishinselzer it did remind me a little of you, hope that’s received as a big a compliment as it’s meant. ✨❤️🦀 ❤️✨
Off for a snorkel
Rainbow dinosaur 🌈🦕 Cassowary Coast, Etty Bay, Mamu Country #mamu #ettybay #cassowary #cassowarycoast
Sky oceans push to the sea. Everything becomes a tide. Flotsam edges congregate and life begins again, again. #wettropics #flotsom #flow #skyriver #skyocean #water #mamu
Plein air seeding sex and death on the beach. Super stratum. #tropicalsoup #primordialedges #tropicalrainforest #convergence #cycloneseeder #cyclonesower #patterns #edges #stratum #sensorimotordrawing #dualhandeddrawing
Rainy day, Ella bay, Bagirbarra clan, Mamu people.
My eyes wobble through the horizon, closing, blinking, through smoke from the winter burn. My hands drawn by my gut travel ridges no focal length can touch.
Late night, uncertain atmospheres