I am a writer and photographer, passionate about art and the natural world, and deeply concerned about the future. Wyn and I live beside Jagun Nature Reserve in Gumbaynggirr Jagun [Gumbaynggirr country]. Jagun means home/dwelling/country.
The Grey-headed Flying Foxes are all on the move in an alternate world of nectar and moonlight.
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'we understand how rare this whole game is and that for all practical purposes we are alone.' Marcelo Gleiser
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This site has been in a renovation stage. I will be gradually adding pages from the last couple of months of the project.
My daily journal of writings and photographs, Virus 2020 started in January, before I knew it was going to become an ongoing project, From March documenting the day became a daily activity, to document the pandemic from a regional and global perspective. I look at both personal and wider social/economic ramifications, but primarily focus on this crisis as an opportunity to appreciate and (as usual) celebrate the natural environment. This focus is from a position of good fortune. This region has not (yet) been affected by the virus, merely slightly inconvenienced.
We need (when we can) to use these strange, uncertain times to re-evaluate what is really important, and in a time of lockdown, appreciate what is in our immediacy – the natural world. Natural Aesthetics is a way to cope with the anxiety of lockdown, disease, depression, unemployment and the uncertainty of what lies ahead, a way of enjoying being alive, and also a spur to resetting how we live and recognising the damage we are (all) doing to the natural environment and all life forms.
Uncle Micklo teaching the crowd a Gumbaynggirr song, with elders present, Sandy Jarrett Greenwood, the Gumbaynggirr camp spokesperson, and guest David Shoebridge Greens MP (far right). 8 June
Bumagin, a Gumbaynggirr man arguing. Logging started in Nambucca State Forest. This council supports logging even after the devastation to habitat caused by November’s bushfires. 15 May.
SEE Nov/Dec Art Almanac.
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White-faced Heron, Miilba, Valla Beach, 15 May
An elegant turn as if on a runway, unblinking eyes, perpetually wide, the sleek head delicately textured, Tang brush-strokes white and blue, Persian cobalt from the Silk Road built into a powerful weapon.
In this time of lockdown and physical distancing getting up for Eos is a joy. Let’s get some perspectives on this pandemic that has reached every country, and which the news doesn’t cover.
Early posts on COVID-19 and the Cadigal peoples of Sydney and COVID-19 and Lucretius.
Sunrise, Valla. In these times of physical distancing Eos has become an even more healthy opportunity. 19 March
Little Corellas are/were an inland species that have started to appear in large flocks on the coast. 17 March 2020. This day is included in the Digital Album VIRUS 2020, available on Bandcamp HERE.
2019 8 Nov. New bushfires in our region (70 today, many out of control). New analysis confirms the relationship between climate drivers such as El Niño, climate change and the Australian bushfire season. The JL/JB team made a video of a two week extract from my visual and textual journal beginning November 8 (the first signs that fires were approaching) to November 21 (with a project meeting to help restore devastated Koala habitat). You can see it HERE.
I catch sunset smoking red-handed, a lovely scene
insulated from conceding carelessness of other lives.
Young Grey-headed Flying Fox in the garden