Bloodwood
23 images Created 22 Jul 2016
Bloodwood
A study of fallen leaves of the Red Bloodwood tree, Corymbia gummifera.
A native Australian hardwood tree, occurring predominately on flats and low hills along the coastal strip between the extreme eastern corner of Victoria and south-eastern Queensland. It grows best on moist, rich, loamy soil, but is also commonly found on poorer sandy soils. Since white colonisation it has been used for rough construction purposes, such as poles, sleepers, fencing and mining timbers.
It was the kaleidoscope of colours and patterns of the fallen leaves that caught our eye. The project commenced with the simple idea; to document the leaves as their colours faded within hours of falling from the tree; and to produce large scale prints, in a changed context.
These spent excreters of oxygen are even in death, tightly entwined with ecologies and bio-systems. We see the images as portraits, each leaf individual, in possession of a unique character but all of the one species, born of the wilderness.
In Victoria, we continue to enable the clearfelling and ‘harvesting’ of ancient Australian forest. Perhaps only history will inform us as to how tightly the wilderness is truly interwoven with our own collective health and wellbeing.
A study of fallen leaves of the Red Bloodwood tree, Corymbia gummifera.
A native Australian hardwood tree, occurring predominately on flats and low hills along the coastal strip between the extreme eastern corner of Victoria and south-eastern Queensland. It grows best on moist, rich, loamy soil, but is also commonly found on poorer sandy soils. Since white colonisation it has been used for rough construction purposes, such as poles, sleepers, fencing and mining timbers.
It was the kaleidoscope of colours and patterns of the fallen leaves that caught our eye. The project commenced with the simple idea; to document the leaves as their colours faded within hours of falling from the tree; and to produce large scale prints, in a changed context.
These spent excreters of oxygen are even in death, tightly entwined with ecologies and bio-systems. We see the images as portraits, each leaf individual, in possession of a unique character but all of the one species, born of the wilderness.
In Victoria, we continue to enable the clearfelling and ‘harvesting’ of ancient Australian forest. Perhaps only history will inform us as to how tightly the wilderness is truly interwoven with our own collective health and wellbeing.