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Sites of Reverence : Shrines of Remembrance
These works are site specific responding to remnant Gondwanian communities, who face and have faced violence and destruction. This work seeks to revere their deep time stories and remember them.
Sites of Reverance
These works either honour an ecosystem/ place for its intrinsic value as earthly collaborator, revering these areas opens up opportunities for discussions into their beauty, processes, mechanics. These areas are usually areas in a state of pristineness, they have high ecological activity and health, representing biodiversity and strong mechanistic affects to the global sphere...rainmaking, carbon holding, and life giving.
Shrines of Remembrance
These works honour a degraded landscape, in some cases a decimated landscape. These works create an opportunity to sit in the space in reflection to what has been lost. These include sites of clearfells, potential clear fells and roading.
End of the Road, 2015
End of the Road (2015) is an in situ installation made in collaboration with Patrick Belford (of Inner City Nature). Placed within the heartlands of takayna/ Tarkine gondwanan landscapes of lutriwita/ Tasmania, End of the Road blocks the end of a road in a remnant rainforest logging road. Made from ropes surrendered from the southern oceans as part of marine clean ups and destroyed forest residue from the roading, this blockade stands in reverence as an alter to the ancients. Erected in 2015, it stood in quiet defiance to the logging of the space, half alter, half blockade till the tragic demise of this mixed species forest in 2017. This project was in coordination with Tarkine In Motion, of the Bob Brown Foundation, a large scale residency for artists within the takayna/Tarkine.
takayna/ Tarkine teahouse 2017
Built by Patrick Belford, this simple teahouse uses found materials inside an ancient myrtle forest. Next to the Savage River, which was logged and roaded in the early 1900's, these massive an ancient myrtle trees have coppiced and become beautiful giant trees. Activated by Becca Andrews of Cloudgate Acupuncture, with tea, meditation and presence, this teahouse made time for quiet river and forest sharing.
Forest: Form: Found
Forest : Form : Found: is an opportunity to learn about the forest, to find a form to be with forest and to experience moments of deep interconnection.
Forest: provides a guided ecological experience through the rainforest ecosystem, exploring the evolution of rainforest systems and connections under ground between fungi, trees and soil as well as reflecting on the threats in a warming climate.
Form: is an opportunity to be with the forest, through sitting within a contemporary tea rite. A tea rite with ancient roots in the Dao activated by Becca Andrews of Cloudgate supported us to sit within Form, cultivating stillness and awareness to land, forest and river.
Found: speaks to our sensory perception of both ourselves, the environment and the ceremony we are sitting in, providing an experience of being simultaneously separate from, and yet always connected to the external world. Utilising tea, art making and ecological thought as an avatar for insight, so that we may see a glimpse of the forests, our own bare hearts and their entwined destiny.
