Bark messages

Time and Transience.

These are the first of a new series of paintings celebrating eucalyptus trees many from around the Warriparinga Wetlands area.
 
Surface textures and stories are etched into the bark through fire, time, fauna and human intervention. The solidity of the trees contrasting with the spontaneous scratched messages in the bark. The transformation as the eucalypt grows and sheds its bark, leaving messages that are fragmented and semi-legible



 

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