Category: Environment
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Exploring Ephemeral Art: A Reflection on Plastic Waste
I set up a small shrine with an unlit candle in a cardboard sandbox. It sat next to the sink. Inconspicuous in a corner. There were shells, bits of beach plastic and some polyester petals from a gravestone placed nilly-willy on the little sand bed. We, as a society, unthinkingly embrace and enshrine plastic. That…
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It’s a Cruiser: Orange butterfly at Magnetic Island
This beautiful male Cruiser butterfly hovered long enough for my talented friend Helen who has an eye for photography and the patience to wait for the perfect photo. Taken at Magnetic Island on the walk from Nellie Bay to Arcadia.
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New Growth Follows Fire
Glorious colours from emerging ferns on the wet heathlands behind my house where the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service did a controlled burn.
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Quirky Herb Planter
I replaced the succulent in this planter with red-veined sorrel. Edible “hair” adds a burst of colour to the kitchen bench.
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Lomandra as a cut flower
I’m loving seeing the very contemporary look of flowering Lomandra, an Australian native that we don’t usually think of as a as a cut flower.
ART by Jude Tulloch 