Connecting Arts Ecology and Citizen Science from the ground up in small groups and communities has been the work throughout this year!
It’s urgent as we experience the collapse of old structures, some hanging on for grim death and a grimmer half life!
Like the art market dependent upon endless growth and rejigging ‘stuff’, more accumulation of wealth through ‘collections’ ‘acquisitions’ until the whole world becomes a museum of dead images on a dead planet!
My creative practice emerges from walking, listening and seeing seasonal changes in my garden and natural habitats around me; endless cycles of growth and decay changing through experience of time itself!
Waking up to systemic collapse has been a refreshing liberation, experiencing new life and vigour which grows through the collapse; endlessly visible in Nature and in Self’s connection to this Life Force of rebirth and regeneration.
I’m a sleuth of sensations of survival, clearer vision, fleeting perceptions and inner realisations about what’s really going on - strangled in the mire of media obfuscation and deliberate deception, yet accessible through connecting with the land in our own backyards!
And so the Work continues in regenerating small gardens, community gardens, roadside verges/median strips, local significant vegetation sites, entrusted land to local communities - more urgently in the structures of Stewardship to bring possible futures for our next generations!
See below my Stewardship Creates Futures Video , made for the BROLGA (Building Resilient On-ground Local Groups for Action) Program at Victoria University St Albans, Victoria. It resources local environmental groups with social media upskilling, video making, conservation management plans, fund-raising, and attracting young members and valuing volunteers!
Bandicoot Flight Path Stage 2 November 28 2022
On Nov 28th after three cancellations due to rain, at last Year 11& 12 students from Penleigh & Essendon Grammar School and Greenvale Secondary College! had a fine day to paint the Corrugated iron in the shape of a Bandicoot.
Solarising invasive species to revegetate with indigenous wildflower nurseries at Woodlands Historic Park across to Melbourne Airport.
Hume Shire students painting Bandicoot on corrugated iron to be seen from the air!
Air passengers will see six Bandicoots jumping across Moonee Ponds Creek from Woodlands Historic Park to Melbourne; plant nurseries for revegetating these endangered grasslands of the Western Volcanic Plains
Students from Hume Shire are front and centre of connecting to the land in our own backyard! Parks Victoria at Woodlands Historic Park, Greenvale; a stakeholder in The Chain of Ponds Collaboration’s response to massive invasive species weeds infestation - Bandicoot Flight Path Project.
Adjacent to their Woodlands Historic Park Bandicoot Breeding Program, Parks Victoria with stakeholder ecoartist Catherine van Wilgenburg is creating the Bandicoot Flight Path revegetation project with Penleigh Essendon Grammar School and Greenvale Secondary College.
This series of massive 25m x 18m painted Bandicoots on corrugated iron and weed matting will solarise invasive weed species which are spreading voraciously during La Niña rains; Artichoke Thistle, Chilean Needle grass and Kikuyu grass spread in chaff bags for grazing cattle since early colonisation! These invasive species strangle indigenous Kangaroo, Wallaby and Spear grasses In the foreground of tin laying seen in below right photo.
Best Wishes for a Joyful Christmas with your nearest and dearest and an exciting and rewarding 2023,
EcoArt Systems Australia
