An eddy of stones πͺ¨ an eddy of leaves π a hand γ°οΈ
Each day I have to ask, the rocks, the river, the forests, inside and out, which way? Thanks for the original π· @rossannels π€ Iβm wearing a waterfall of bones, acknowledging patterns I carry, Kabi Kabi land I stand on, asking Maroochyβs tears, the patterns in this land, my body, which way today?
A little tunnel in the patterns of hot and dry #kiamba #southmaroochyriver Maroochyβs tears π
Even death needs a bowl/home π
Wake me when Iβm a mountain β°ππͺ¨
πΏ look down leaves, sky at your feet ππ
Sky leaves my toes π
This arrived today, an exquisite photographic print of @remi.siciliano - mycelium growing though a buried roll of film, (I think of/in the Country of the Dharug and Gundungurra peoples, aka the Blue Mountains.) Country growing through Country, beautiful, heartwarming @remi.siciliano β€οΈ
Bending with the Merri. More bedroom pinups. The #merricreek, when learning to walk again, I walked the #merricreek most days. I got to know a certain part so well that I could tell when subtle changes had happened. It taught me to trust myself again and to trust my senses by connecting deeply with my environment. I moved with it, it moved me. Thanks #Merri, I love you. πππ #wurundjericountry #kulinnation here in my bedroom on #kabikabicountry β€οΈβ€οΈβ€οΈ#symbiocene
Bedroom pinup, when I was the forest there was nothing I could not love #wheniwastheforest #symbiocene #love #wearenotcommodities #wearenature #weareallinthistogether
Bivalve fossils, I find them on the beach quite regularly. I can look at them for hours. The molluscs inside have turned into calcite, when they are wet the crystal formation is so intricate. They can be around 500 million years old from the #cambrian period. I could be wrong about dates for these ones, if you know please correct me. So much time, we are strange with our linear views, this is like a tiny time home. #fossilshell #bivalve #crystalshell #bivalvefossil #cambrianperiod #tinyhouse #fossilmollusc #molluscfossil #fossilmolluscs #fossilbivalve #kabikabi
Holding me holding you, misheard lyrics from my 70βs childhood. I wonβt ear worm you. Iβm not sure if this looks like an ad for old growth toilet paper? I really hope not. I just wish more forest was being loved, being space for connection and learning. This is Conondale national park, despite being subtropical there are very few spots of remnant rainforest here, the area was devastatingly logged once qld became a state. Qld forests are constantly at risk with people clearing land for their own pieces of paradise. Itβs a sad truth. #conondalenationalpark #symbiocene #subtropical #rainforest #pieceofparadise π§π±π
Wind fossil.
#Mountain #mushroom #tree #music #banana #Bdelloidea π§ sloppy π€³π½ shhh
Chirpy bubbles
Ways γ°οΈβ°βΏ
Like a two handed drawing. Who made this do you think? #leafholes #leafcutter
Carpet snake π vertebrae, together π #carpetsnake #carpetpython #vertabrae
Keystone ghosts
Maybe the pot looked like something familiar, maybe it was hot and the water was cool. I donβt know, but I saw it the day before. #Grasshopper shroud π π¦
Three snakes in 3 weeks, first baby, second, giant glory, third, on the road, dead. Lain in my yard, 3 months to bones. It now speaks what's between the wind and the dead.Β
I threw its bones and traced their shapes, and waited.
Deadly nightshade, tea tree, taro, ferns, salvias. A halved heart of mistletoe, a grasshopper drowned in palm ink.Β
Then a woven message from both hands, stitched together, mending words, weeds, pests, the always ones, keystones, cornerstones, rivers of air, ocean of time, been everywhere, now here, whispers... together, we are bound... #wind #symbiocene #snakebones #scrying #weeds #keystones #ancienth2o #sensorimotordrawing #dualhandeddrawing #throwingbones #plantinks #layers #mistletoe #garden #homesweethome #homesampler #kabikabicountry
Connector, inviter, bloom, the silky oak end of a mistletoe join. I found on the road. I carved out rotted parts and covered with bunya resin (anti rot) Iβd soaked in macadamia oil last year. Not the best practice with any of it. But it smells beautiful and is a haptic and olfactory path to connection, cycles, keystones, and love. #silkyoak #mistletoe #haustoria #roots #somanyotherthings
Places talk, do we still listen? Do we remember how? Country letβs us know all kind of information through observation, patterns, cycles, rebirth, death and destruction. There are ripples in every act we make in our environment. We are not ineffective. For generations all of our ancestors knew how to read place. This is a big tree down on Country where water has been hoarded. We need to listen. Iβd like to think this giant root system is speaking to us of renewal of our connection, a deepening of our own roots and relationships with place, and respect for traditional owners and their long held wisdom of this Country. #alwayswasalwayswillbe βπ½#readingplace #canwestilllisten #roots #symbiocene #scrying
Naβrawi* moves Wallum, detail, 2019 (*Kabi Kabi, Waves) this has just returned from #Herland @thewomenslibrary, during #naidocweek this year reminding us it #alwayswasalwayswillbe β€οΈ And Iβve been reminded of how weβve been pushed to separate βnatureβ from our beings, to create hierarchy, and to disconnect from the incredible intellect of this Country. π± I am most aware when moving within the cycles of my environment, which is always teaching me, my instincts connected and guided, everything alive. This living Country, of rich wisdom, which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders have held for centuries, reminds me what it is to be human. Thank you and greatest respect. πβ€οΈππ€ #kabikabicountry
That sort of day, suicide cricket print, and a bunch of plant blood, compost state. #plantink #insectprint #cricket #unimaginedasyet #compost
Cleaning studio of covid bacterial buddies. My space is now a biological spore ground. It did get quite hard to work in. But all the little biohazards are bottled now and the space is being readied for new life, spawn of iso, complex intergenerational patterns, and the collapsing of structures that were crap. Compost, or genetic weed mat. πβ‘οΈ#plantinks #bacterialinks #microbiome #littlefriends
Casting to wind, to make visible, a convergence, tremor in the waves, a plane of sheaves, something, something, all at once.
A hopeful webbed bundle from storm windfall #mistletoe, #eucalyptus, fermented and dried leaves and #seeds, #roots, #mushrooms, #ferns, #weeds.
Xanthorrhoea Point Glorious, Mapleton national park, Kabi Kabi Country
Maybe #pademelon #hobbitsy hole π³ πΏ
No power for 2 days. Means no water either here. Grumble grumble. We are keeping things very #Beltane for a while π»π€π (at friends using water electricity, lucky π)
Roots, rocks, remember ππΈπ¦΄π¬
In between worlds. Plants π± draw with reflections on water, #algae, #whelks, #sheoaks, #wind. Two handed drawing, dual neural hemispheres, #sensorimotordrawing . Spore print, smell of death and birth. Seasonal veils loosely woven, tentative webs binding worlds. Go gently πππΈπ¬β¨π₯π¦΄