Still Life

One giant tree stump in the ground, felled by broad axe. Another, the butts of its roots still hugging the rock it formed around, nudged into place by bulldozer leaving scars on its shortened trunk. Between them a boulder, waist high and covered in ages of moss and lichen. Here they sit as a posed study — stilled giants at rest.

Part of the artist residency program at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston, Tasmania (1996, 1998) and exhibited in resulting solo exhibition, Fragility & Endurance, at the Gallery in December 2000 — February 2001.