Limestone Suiseki
Nosing out of the terra rossa soil, a limestone boulder with lichen and unusual weathering…
tuart dieback
A picture from our excursion to a property at the edge of Lake Clifton. This tree stump shows the shallow root system of the Tuart. I’m not sure whether this one fell over or was ‘pushed’ but at the same time tuarts in Yalgorup have suffered severe decline.
“The Yalgorup region represents the largest unfragmented area of tuart woodland in WA and looking at historical satellite images we can tell that the severe decline started in the early 1990s in Yalgorup, but that decline is now escalating rapidly and is spreading to other areas,’’ Mr Barber said.
Paul Barber from the Tuart Health Research Group (2007) http://www.sciencewa.net.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1650&Itemid=587
Phytophthora multivora has now been identified as a major factor in tuart dieback. However it seems that tree decline is a complex combination of other potential factors such as weeds, grazing, climate change, increased salinity in groundwater and insect attack.
plastic complexity
Thrown casually over discarded brush, this knot of bailer twine was on land where every skerrick of vegetation had been cleared for grazing — right down to the fenceline on Lake Clifton.
old corrugated iron near Lake Clifton
This iron was part of a fence to stop rabbits (I think) around a Lake Clifton property. Different sheets had different vestiges of blue paint leading me to think long linear lakes and transverse dunes.
What is the shape of ecosystem(s)?
Taken at sunrise at Lake Hayward it represents to me the complexity of ecosystems which I wish to convey in the final work.
Lake Clifton Thrombolites
Central to the sixth shore project is the actual thrombolites themselves. This is taken from the boardwalk.
geometric form
I took this photo on Sunday at Lake Pollard and showed the photo as part of my presentation at the Hydrobotanics Symposium yesterday.
Sydney the photogenic Pomeranian
I am interested in taking a picture of the left forefoot of different sized animals. Here is one from Sydney the very happy Pomeranian whose owner kindly allowed me to photograph him the other day.
a bank of path slides
I had forgotten the power of depth of field. This image is of a bank of path slide smears with purple stains. Amazing abstract image.
Pathology lab
A starting point in my work about the spaces of science for project 2.
Someone has just left/someone is about to come in. Bare life.
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Encyclopaedia Isoptera 1998 Bound digital print book with 196 illustrations. Edition of three
Book 20.5 x 13.5 x 2 cm
Encyclopaedia Isoptera was part of the Termitaria series. It was a 224-page long Encyclopaedia on termites, which combined factual biological information with interesting anecdotes and fascinating facts about termites that had been collected from history, literature and scientific sources.
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Macropus eugenii (tammar wallaby) 2006 in Chart, John Curtin Art Gallery, Curtin University of Technology vinyl on floor 10 m x 10 m
In an exhibition whose theme was mapping the radio tracking data of a two tammar wallabies on Garden Island off the coast of Perth are reproduced as a floor map. The blue (female) and aqua (male) marks are technologically mediated signatures at 1:100 scale.
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The world has no shortage of things (the world of the Great Bowerbird) was a sound installation shown as part of The System of Nature, exhibition at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western Australia. This exhibition celebrated the 300th anniversary of the birth of Linnaeus.
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Caduac (windfall) series from 2008 digital print on archival paper. Photograph taken at the Australian Museum in 2006
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Part of a daily collage series from 1997
(The nebula of Andromeda as seen through the big telescope at the Yerkes Observatory in Chicago)
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Termitaria was a large series of work, all to do with termites. This was a panel of a large drawing that I did.
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A bowerbird being released after banding at the Broome Bird Observatory. This was part of the green, grey or dull silver art and science project.
