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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1410523291145-EUS6TTA2AWGHVE0QNQEF/65C+Natalie+Maras+copy.jpg Wildlife sculptures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1366461589045-8GV8MCHFGNK2020QDAG9/IMG_2828+finished.jpg Wildlife sculptures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1391600761548-ZR8OLP2FRLRJ4IQC33FG/DSC_0053.JPG Wildlife sculptures http://findiflooshki.com/on-the-verge daily 0.75 2014-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1411132653956-6XBQ5RKT31BZ5EA5U43I/Conference+of+nannas+%28Lomatia+Tasmanica%29+low+res.jpg On the Verge - Conference of Nannas (Lomatia tasmanica) Polymer clay/ copper leaf, 38cmH x 33cmW x 10cmD I became interested in this unique plant from South Western Tasmania at the same time as Australian grandmothers were gathering in silent, often knitting, protest against coal seam gas. My interest took me to the Australian National Herbarium where I wished to see in person a plant from the fossil record that has no seeds and can only clone itself. Today’s remnant plants (on the verge of extinction) are genetically identical to those in the fossil record from around 135,000 years old! Imagine my surprise to see the Herbarium flower specimens. With petals dried and lost, the flowers appear as nannas in quaint bonnets, gathered together in mute consternation. The sculpture is mounted on Huon pine- another ancient Tasmanian plant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1411132653956-6XBQ5RKT31BZ5EA5U43I/Conference+of+nannas+%28Lomatia+Tasmanica%29+low+res.jpg On the Verge - Conference of Nannas (Lomatia tasmanica) Polymer clay/ copper leaf, 38cmH x 33cmW x 10cmD I became interested in this unique plant from South Western Tasmania at the same time as Australian grandmothers were gathering in silent, often knitting, protest against coal seam gas. My interest took me to the Australian National Herbarium where I wished to see in person a plant from the fossil record that has no seeds and can only clone itself. Today’s remnant plants (on the verge of extinction) are genetically identical to those in the fossil record from around 135,000 years old! Imagine my surprise to see the Herbarium flower specimens. With petals dried and lost, the flowers appear as nannas in quaint bonnets, gathered together in mute consternation. The sculpture is mounted on Huon pine- another ancient Tasmanian plant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1411132661494-E0YX3S13LQC3WM45SXFN/Face+to+Face+%28Acacia+with+pollen%29+low+res.jpg On the Verge - Face to Face (Acacia with pollen) Polymer clay/ sandstone, 64cmH x 26cmW x 25cmD This piece is inspired by a reproductive event that is on the verge of visibility for humans. Coming face to face with the release of acacia pollen requires a couple of thousand times magnification. The fluffy native flower that Australians know so well is made up of scores of anthers, each of which looks (under the microscope) like a heavily textured tube. Atop this tube is a purse-like structure with two slits that burst open, spilling coin-like pollen into the environment. The colours I have chosen are inspired by Australian sandstone and the vivid blue skies that receive and distribute tons of pollen each year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1411132668769-GFW2XWDRBJFF5QHTFPAE/Gone+Underground+%28Rhizanthella+orchid%29+low+res.jpg On the Verge - Gone underground (Rhizanthella slateri) Polymer clay/ found wood, 25cmH x 47cmW x 47cmD This sculpture pays tribute to a mysterious orchid and the ever-present threat to its survival that is presented by land clearing and the building of roads. The Eastern Underground Orchid was discovered in 1931 and is currently known in only 10 secret locations in NSW. It is a leafless orchid that lives underground in association with a mycorrhiza fungus, apparently to improve its uptake of nutrients. The orchid also flowers underground in October/ November, only sometimes emerging up to 2cm above the soil surface. Land clearing and the building of roads are a major threat to the plant but when the plant has literally ‘gone underground’, it is difficult to measure the extent of the threat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1411132679866-MS7QHYFUGDZK6A05W677/Into+the+Future+%28Psilotum+nudum%29+low+res.jpg On the Verge - Into the Future (Psilotum nudum) Polymer clay/ alcohol ink, 56cmH x56cmW x 22cmD This piece celebrates a very primitive plant (the Skeleton Fork Fern) together with its jelly-bean like pollen (which I have depicted after thousands of times magnification). The Skeleton Fork Fern, which is not a fern, has only half the vascular system of modern plants, but has been around for millions of years- well before the evolution of humans and modern plants. On a recent trip to Sydney, I found a few spindly specimens growing from a hairline fissure between sandstone blocks in a restaurant! After millions of years on Earth, I get the feeling it has some tricks that will enable it to outlive every one of us whether we notice it or not. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1411132711528-YQT6IRGWK1U3434W1LD3/Lest+We+Forget+%28Papaver+rhoeas%29+low+res+.jpg On the Verge - Lest we Forget (Papaver rhoeas) Polymer clay/ copper/ seed beads, 56cmH x 30cmW x 30cmD This sculpture presents two poppy buds, (one of which has fallen to ground on the verge of flowering) and a remembrance flower facing its past. Through its accidental association with human conflict, this common agricultural weed, a native of Europe, has been launched from the soil to international human attention. Today poppies proliferate in the strangest of sterile environments (malls, supermarkets, schools, houses of parliament) but mostly as impoverished mimics of their splendid botanical ancestors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1411132727471-N1GOWX63STCD2EII5ZTJ/Mountain+Warrior+%28Banksia+canei%29+low+res.jpg On the Verge - Mountain warrior (Banksia canei) Polymer clay/ weathered burl, 30cmH x 15cmW x 20cmD Banksia canei is a shrub that inhabits sub-alpine areas and impresses me with its survival spunk. Adult plants produce fruits that remain closed until they are burnt. The adult plant does not survive the fire that ensures the release of seeds. Prolonged cold temperatures are then required to stratify the seeds. Can you see the impact of climate change on such a plant? Rooted to its spot, it cannot chase a retreating snow line. When the bushfires arise, the parent dies without fulfilling its potential- to produce progeny with some prospect of carrying on. The seeds will fall to the ground never to germinate. However, we may not yet have the full picture… Banksia canei is the first recorded indigenous species of Proteaceae to become established in Australia outside its natural range. It has become established in the mild near-coastal climate of Western Australia, where the seeds would rarely be stratified. It suggests that this mountain warrior has fighting spirit still. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1411132808715-VENTZR43V9HEWZXTBRBQ/Schoolyard+Bully+%28Bull+Thistle%29.jpg On the Verge - Schoolyard Bully (Bull Thistle) Polymer clay/ alcohol ink, 50cmH x 27cmW x 27cmD This sculpture of a thistle bud, replete with ripening pink seeds, emerged from the literal pedestrian verge. On my daily walk to collect my children from school, I became witness to something of a parable beside the car park. A thistle plant was growing directly beneath a signpost. The pole prevented the gardener from mowing down the weed. In the grit and fumes, this lone bull thistle grew to an enormous size. It pushed out aggressively spiked shoots and flowers that every day snagged stockings, schoolbags and small children. One day, I found it had vanished from its pole position. Someone had trampled it- leaves; stem and all- absolutely bruising flat. This was a fate from which it has never recovered but I still keep watch for its progeny. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1411132847389-56LYLB1CMF5GYYQU45G7/Common+Gold+%28Calendula+officinalis+seed%29+low+res+copy+2.jpg On the Verge - Common Gold (Calendula officinalis) Polymer clay/24K gold, 50cmH x 18cmW x 10cmD The title of this sculpture might appear a misnomer since 24 carat gold is not at all common. I urge you to value more highly the seeds of what is usually taken to be a simple and utterly pedestrian yellow-flowering garden weed. Calendula is one of a few plants that produce not one but three types of seed on the one seed head- each unique spiralling architecture is more or less designed for dispersal via different methods. Given the proliferation of the plant in local gardens, it is clearly a successful survival strategy. Calendula seed oils have a high rate of oxidation and are used in paints and coatings industry, and have applications in the manufacture of cosmetics and some industrial polymers. Recent findings also cast a spotlight on the body-fat lowering and anti-carcinogenic properties of Calendula, which are especially applicable to human leukaemia and colon cancer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1411132951355-PM7HMFYAOQ9BH738WQ1M/The+Kiss+%28Tiger+Lily+pollen+germinating%29+low+res.jpg On the Verge - The Kiss (Tiger lily pollen germinating) Polymer clay, 48cmH x 31cmW x 33cmD To the naked eye, a tiger lily is a beautiful flower with romantic appeal. At 2000 times magnification, a scanning electron microscope reveals simultaneously alien and familiar features. The surface of the sticky lobed stigma in the middle of the flower is covered in slender (female) filaments, each of which seeks a single (male) pollen grain. Once a pollen grain has landed on a receptive filament, molecular signaling causes the pollen grain to germinate. When we clip the pollen-laden anthers from tiger lily flowers (to prevent staining of human clothing and furniture), we interrupt this story… ‘the kiss’ will never be fulfilled. For the romantics, I have used phosphoric polymer clay over the surface of this sculpture. This means that the whole sculpture has a soft glow in the dark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1411132972714-K18SQ4RP3684N7B7GGWZ/Starship+%28Firebush+Seed%29+low+res.jpg On the Verge - Starship (African Firebush seed) Polymer clay, 50cmH x11cmW x 16cmD As I was making this sculpture of an African Firebush seed (around 8mm long), I noted that bookings were being taken for the first civilian flights into space. Engineers deliberately build space ships and suits like seeds, since nature has refined their engineering over thousands of years. I find the highly detailed aerodynamics of this seed particularly striking. Consider the poignancy of a botanical spacecraft (seed) passing through extremes of temperature, humidity, radiation and time. The seed delivers its ‘cargo’ to an unknown and almost always hostile destination. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1411133014443-FFIH5W4WMSK9NIRW4BO0/Mortal+Combat+%28Mistletoe+vs+Eucalyptus%29+hi+res+copy.jpg On the Verge - Mortal Combat (Mistletoe vs Eucalypt) Polymer clay, 52cmH x 56cmW x 52cmD This sculpture is inspired by the naturally quite well matched contest between parasitic mistletoes and host eucalypts- after fire has ravaged them both. Growing up with weekly drives through the country to the coast, mistletoes were a familiar sight. We came to know the eucalypt trees most heavily infested and over the years, watched them sicken under the pressures of parasitism (primarily water loss). Bushfires normally rid the eucalypts of mistletoes however land clearing minimizes this effect and so unfairly advantages mistletoes. If you look closely at the apparently defeated eucalypt, you will find it is the actual victor: the emergence of epicormic shoots heralds the re-sprouting of healthy limbs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1411133045491-Y513I8WSNJIWB1H6XC2W/Sleeper+Cell+%28Nigella+seed+with+flower%29+low+res+copy+2.jpg On the Verge - Sleeper cell (Nigella seed with flower) Polymer clay, 42cmH x 35cmW x 20cmD This piece emerged during Egypt’s Spring when ideologies (like seeds) were suddenly activated, having lain inconspicuously dormant. With near scientific accuracy, this sculpture represents the intricate surface detail of a single microscopic seed of Nigella damascena or ‘Love-in-a-Mist’ (around 200 times magnification). From this emerges a hint of its flower as well as a seed of the related Nigella sativa (black cumin). Cumin is one of the oldest known culinary and medicinal plants. Seeds and oil have been used around the world as a spice, to cure a wide variety of ailments, and even as a nutritional grain (similar to wheat). Nigella was so important in ancient Egypt that seeds were buried with pharaohs like Tutankhamen and proved viable in modern times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1411133118353-XNPBS0DZBQ5EDTZNJGV6/Love+Thy+Neighbour+%28Lichen+on+rare+pheasant+wood%29+low+res+copy.jpg On the Verge - Love Thy Neighbour- Lichen Polymer clay/ pheasant wood, 47cmH x 30cmW x 23cmD Lichens comprise two almost inseparable organisms – a fungus and a photosynthetic partner (either an alga or a cyanobacteria). Attempts have been made to separate the two partners but neither ‘neighbour’ thrives without the other. Nobody knows how many lichen species exist on earth. Estimates range between 13,500 and 30,000. At any rate, the partnership is so successful, lichens can colonize habitats that remain out of reach for us. My use of rare pheasant wood symbolizes the additional fact that human neighbours can generate new habitats for lichen, which would otherwise be very rare or completely absent in the natural environment (for example gravestones, garden ornaments, play equipment with ideal aspects and fresh air). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1411133165788-W92KPZF5V1BLM1DPAQC9/Satellite+Tracker+%28Borage+seed+with+flower%29+low+res+copy+2.jpg On the Verge - Satellite tracking (Borage seed with flower) Polymer clay, 47cmH x 34cmW x 18cmD This sculpture depicts a highly magnified borage seed (normally only 4mm long) with its flower (around 25mm). The barbed and ornate surface of the seed ensures good adhesion to animals and hence wide dispersal. Last year, I planted six borage seedlings in my home garden bed as a food source for bees. My children marvelled at the similarity between borage flowers and the satellite dishes they saw on rooftops in Queanbeyan. The seeds have proven incredibly fecund. Even though the plants are rooted to the spot, they have multiplied to around 100 plants and have managed to traverse the breadth of our garden in vivid blue tracks. http://findiflooshki.com/media-clips daily 0.75 2014-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1429619689903-9VLS21LCDXIB1L3S9K3H/150421-0028.png Media clips https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1429619689903-9VLS21LCDXIB1L3S9K3H/150421-0028.png Media clips https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1429619704084-EOEXCBHD9N7L0T9979BO/150421-0029.png Media clips https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1412758860340-LZL1B1NG27WLQ8SR35NV/141008-0001.png Media clips https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1412758875511-BYPGD2BOOWF1PM7JMUTQ/141008-0002.png Media clips https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1412758833409-IZ02SC2KXFSQBRV2JH67/141008-0003.png Media clips https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1411050693852-94X7AQRSGZI1A41BXD6R/Cultivate.jpg Media clips https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1412758766414-13MPOO8O79K3W2LNEENP/141007-0001.png Media clips https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1410527424104-DTADJZ4HS1A587L6LWXP/140912-0003.png Media clips https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1410527887214-0QDCPZKVHJP5MU24GPGZ/140912-0005.png Media clips https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1410527060306-GU2LJTXP154MS8LJ8NH9/140912-0001.png Media clips https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1410527347186-5RMF5FFTRB8AGULEWNUW/140912-0002.png Media clips https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1410526422451-JW55Q5T2KA3TLMS2I24H/140801-0001+copy.png Media clips https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1410527914788-XRJJ1GVP8N3VQD3X4H8T/140912-0004.png Media clips https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1412759404356-0XWJ6CKHKWKVM24OQZDZ/Maras+Media+copy.jpg Media clips https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1410526356606-8TQPRE21B0RO88EQHSHJ/Maras+MediaII+copy.jpg Media clips https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1412767398242-CJRRMIG4HMAQM3KHQRBQ/speaker.jpg Media clips - Radio Interview Link to radio interview   http://findiflooshki.com/audio-media daily 0.75 2014-10-08 http://findiflooshki.com/interface-2015 daily 0.75 2015-11-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446900140606-DPC0UYZAR4147UCNRYC7/No+Chance%21.png Interface 2015 - No Chance! A screw grass seed lands on moss and attempts to penetrate the crust. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446900140606-DPC0UYZAR4147UCNRYC7/No+Chance%21.png Interface 2015 - No Chance! A screw grass seed lands on moss and attempts to penetrate the crust. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446900274147-MZL9G4JLZDANA78VL0ZO/A+Little+on+Virtue+%26+Destruction.png Interface 2015 - A Little on Virtue and Destruction An attempt to come to terms with the inevitable damage caused by (even justifiable!) curiosity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446900355085-EQJDSNJ0R1V3PY3AYHYW/Outgoing+Tide.png Interface 2015 - Outgoing Tide A lichen study that evokes waves on a shore. 'Outgoing tide' refers to the many human centred challenges to lichen survival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446900429059-WBT3LB95HOU6R50FBSU3/Sinuosity+of+Flow.png Interface 2015 - Sinuosity of Flow A study on the behaviour of water on moss. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446900477927-C5GFZ4DGDDR5LW2CDQC0/An+Increasingly+Rare+Phenomenon.png Interface 2015 - An Increasingly Rare Phenomenon An observation about the ageing demographic and lifelong devotion of lichenologists / bryologists / mycologists in research institutions around the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446900620964-0KCOQVMP57AHJS2HJFIK/Grass+Ceiling.png Interface 2015 - Grass Ceiling A metaphor of invisible barriers to success. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446900685854-U49LY1YF7G87FHTS1WY1/Desert+Encounter.png Interface 2015 - Desert Encounter 'Ship of the desert' meets another great traveller - vagrant lichen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446901530124-QL88NFCECHMM3OSDTE6N/Crust+Tryptch.png Interface 2015 - Crust Tryptch A playful study of light and shadow in common crust assemblages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446901639476-8JCFJNEBDQEM2XH8KD46/Tapestry+with+Burrs.png Interface 2015 - Tapestry with burrs A common assemblage of moss with twigs and seeds. Crust can prevent invasion by foreign plant species. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446900821347-YCYVJ4V4W3FKPUWNC9F2/Found+I.png Interface 2015 - Found 1 An observation about competing interests in the study of soil crusts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446900946396-3BN9JPZJGAZPLXM4UVRH/Understanding+Erosion.png Interface 2015 - Understanding Erosion A disturbingly real prospect if biological soil crusts are destroyed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446901748670-ZJEKCA3YLTK1S4E2N3CU/Support+Structures.png Interface 2015 - Support Structures A metaphor of an artistic residency in a scientific institution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446901848554-75688Z8IY5GYWT7MEOTD/Stamping+Ground.png Interface 2015 - Stamping Ground There are around 150 species of Xanthoparmelia lichen in Australia, which can tolerate only low levels of disturbance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446901928739-J28LQM5SO7PEGHLNPW6C/Frost+Heave.png Interface 2015 - Frost Heave Frozen moisture in the uppermost millimetres of soil spill pebbles into sunlight. Crusts tolerate some of the most extreme conditions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446902183623-X3XMHZT8MKSXEYTZSL7O/Zero+Meets+A+Hundred.png Interface 2015 - Zero Meets a Hundred Even with a hundred years of experience in the most extreme conditions, crust is helpless in the hands of innocent curiosity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446902023291-YLN50O78KA928PS7TRIM/Folios.png Interface 2015 - Folios Manila folders and paperbark at ANBG. Some of my earliest visual inspiration at Black Mt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446896282135-3XE3JEX4WDEJYCXX06LV/03+rip+copy.png Interface 2015 - Either Way, You Need Crust An original concept drawing in which an artist's grave announces the same message as all preceding scientists who contributed knowledge during their lifetimes. Now all graves stand in the same mute quarter, only to be colonised by lichen and perhaps also visited by those who remember. (graphite on Arches paper 36cm x 44cm) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446896243458-7FY8ONTQHUBWYCYUBZ69/The+Scream+of+Nature+%28small%29.png Interface 2015 - The Scream of Nature II After Edvard Munch's famous painting titled 'Der Schrei Der Natur'. In my version, a spent snapdragon seed (Antirrhinum majus) screams from a bed of moss and lichen. I discovered this scene quite accidently while weeding and was compelled to share the parallel. (graphite on Arches paper 78cm x 58cm) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446896260200-AMCY3SQ2I7JHZFJ0QFI7/Found+II+%28small%29.png Interface 2015 - Found II After Frank McCubbin's sketch titled 'Found' in which a man cradles a young girl who had become lost in a wild Australian forest. In the paradigm to which I am witness, older scientists cradle the last of botanical species in the same forests. (graphite on Arches paper 44cm x 36cm) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446896202189-7JMMSYOCE6V3PID8EXNT/L%27Origine+Du+Monde+%28small%29.png Interface 2015 - L'Origine Du Monde This work references a famous painting completed in 1866 by Gustave Courbet. the original work pays (outrageously direct!) homage to the origin of human life. My fascination with biological soil crusts renders the theme differently although with equally strict adherence to the values of Realism. (graphite on Arches paper 78cm x 58cm) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446896393030-OSEK9HB6B47FUNOIZ6UP/Astrohort+%28small%29.jpg Interface 2015 - Astrohort This work envisages a time when lichen is cultivated in space, in order to pave the way for higher plant and animal life on other planets. (polymer clay on wood with metal leaf and alcohol ink, 58cm x 30cm x 36cm) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446896220769-XTO2G4EKBJ3R1RWKX5K2/Fruiting+Bodies.jpg Interface 2015 - Fruiting Bodies Made from recycled materials, this work was inspired by a scene I encountered by lying on my stomach with a hand lens. Sometimes, human scale experiences is the only way to raise awareness of microscopic stories.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446898041193-5AQLLM3ZKV1E27XXOWB8/Time+of+the+Essence+sculpture+by+Natalie+Maras.jpg Interface 2015 - Time of Essence A symbolic crust illustrating that every organism has its own time span. If left to develop at its own pace, it will have a chance to make an important contribution to its community. (polymer clay on glass: 4hr - 42cm / 60min - 20cm / 15min - 15cm / 5min - 12.5cm / 3min - 10.5cm) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447152792653-7LBOWK7BBUT1K2V2NK5T/tunnel+book+side+-+sm.jpg Interface 2015 - Consolation A 'tunnel book' of biological soil crusts. Each 'page' represents a deeper layer of crust. From top to bottom: leaf litter, lichen, moss, fungi, pebbles and a final consolation. We will not be around to witness the worst consequences of the destruction of biological crusts. We shall experience a lesser personal impact much sooner. (aluminium, 60cm h x 40cm w) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447152824609-C5B4ZRMVIGTNEK274AKH/tunnel+book+-+sm.jpg Interface 2015 - Consolation A 'tunnel book' of biological soil crusts. Each 'page' represents a deeper layer of crust. From top to bottom: leaf litter, lichen, moss, fungi, pebbles and a final consolation. We will not be around to witness the worst consequences of the destruction of biological crusts. We shall experience a lesser personal impact much sooner. (aluminium, 60cm h x 40cm w) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153029074-0YBZPEHBRRZDQCRRZFJ8/box01.jpg Interface 2015 - Valley of the Shadow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153249349-SGENXLLIH4Y0TYILINPU/box07.jpg Interface 2015 - Chondropsis sp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153189384-ORFFNF6ZJBF5Q37RHX5E/box05.jpg Interface 2015 - Dawsonia sp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153063538-TBBOG8RM2U3ABIKAOMFB/box02.jpg Interface 2015 - Xanthoparmelia sp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153145395-SB0XFPLD71T9615OCRC6/box04.jpg Interface 2015 - Cudbear https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153222542-JHN52TZYWMN3V2RC8VHL/box06.jpg Interface 2015 - Outcrop https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153106369-QQE5W880L8FFS79LM2VT/box03.jpg Interface 2015 - Association https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153269372-1I97Z56PLHBOOVTB2DGQ/box08.jpg Interface 2015 - Cladonia sp. with twigs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153306434-5AWJEJJCA7OGUWPADIEB/box09.jpg Interface 2015 - Barbula sp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153355776-RG22BAN4YMONDX4PG88Q/box10.jpg Interface 2015 - Lecidea sp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153411424-P0P9XGICX1BD26G5RHZS/box11.jpg Interface 2015 - Bryum sp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153437377-ZWKM3TZ2Z2ZNH2TO5PVX/box12.jpg Interface 2015 - Cladonia sp. with leaves https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153464412-9ZP82UJ12TIQ2SS5GRVN/box13.jpg Interface 2015 - Caloplaca sp. and Acarospora sp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153487666-5BI3AIBEEJ50AXV04Q7E/box14.jpg Interface 2015 - Tapestry Crust https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153507220-YRYB9MD93JS7PTE8GJJF/box15.jpg Interface 2015 - Fork in the Path https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153534501-5TA8PEM15C7Z8FA48KNL/box16.jpg Interface 2015 - Sticks and Stones https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153557087-YUW34TZH1J2JHF84ZCE2/box17.jpg Interface 2015 - Cladia sp. http://findiflooshki.com/compendium-2016 daily 0.75 2016-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479110889992-BVBE19TKQAISWU4L1GOU/All+At+Sea.jpg Compendium of Living Enquiry 2016 - All At Sea Earth Sciences: Oceanography Where do you begin to understand the mysteries of the earth’s oceans when even your feet are floating in water? It must feel at times an overwhelming task since marine life and ecosystems, ocean circulation, plate tectonics and the geology of the sea floor, as well as the chemical and physical properties of seawater are complex, inter-related and ever changing. When currents of change also run through oceans due to climate change, pollution, fishing, mining and transport, how will you accomplish robust longitudinal observations? Where do you find your firm place to stand in order to move the world? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479110889992-BVBE19TKQAISWU4L1GOU/All+At+Sea.jpg Compendium of Living Enquiry 2016 - All At Sea Earth Sciences: Oceanography Where do you begin to understand the mysteries of the earth’s oceans when even your feet are floating in water? It must feel at times an overwhelming task since marine life and ecosystems, ocean circulation, plate tectonics and the geology of the sea floor, as well as the chemical and physical properties of seawater are complex, inter-related and ever changing. When currents of change also run through oceans due to climate change, pollution, fishing, mining and transport, how will you accomplish robust longitudinal observations? Where do you find your firm place to stand in order to move the world? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479110758816-UFBMQ8PHMYRRSZ86XEZT/All+Over+Red+Rover.jpg Compendium of Living Enquiry 2016 - All Over Red Rover Physical Sciences: Geodesy Imagine gathering the finance and people needed to sling a rocket 483 million kilometres through deep space, hoping to land on Mars. Trajectory errors are inconceivable at your end because they could lead to Rover missing Mars completely. How many times will you check and check again your calculations? Will storms, solar flares, meteorites and computer glitches threaten Rover on its journey? Will it endure its rapid entry and descend safely through the Martian atmosphere at about 19,000 kilometres per hour? Only by extraordinary technology, concentration and luck, does your Rover finally fulfil its potential on land. Whilst you would like Rover to roam all over, finding rocks and soils or perhaps water, will it all be over in less than 50 kilometres? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479110268406-FZ6C6SRIB485QB90W588/Between+Heaven+and+Earth.jpg Compendium of Living Enquiry 2016 - Between Heaven and Earth Life Sciences: Botany Imagine dangling from a rope slightly above a tropical canopy. The air is heavy with moisture, and your clothing clings in the heat. The foliage of vines and trees is thrusting upwards to the light. You have just spotted a flower that blooms only once in 100 years. You have never seen it before but you know it from books and journals. Your assistant shouts up to you from the gloom below. Her voice sends birds panicking out of the treetops. Their brilliant feathered flashes and squawks startle you, threatening to topple your laptop. The sweat rolls, the insects bite, the birds fly, the rope descends into gloom and an irritable assistant needs help as your stunning find is just within reach overhead… Will you choose to reach above or descend to Earth? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479110994801-MD89914UWJUI59L22KD8/Constructive+Destruction.jpg Compendium of Living Enquiry 2016 - Constructive Destruction Earth Sciences: Palaeontology How can you study traces of ancient life when they are encased in solid rock? How many gaps in the fossil record do you fill by artificially accelerating natural erosion? How can you justify breaking the foundation of early life especially when it has enabled your own theories to emerge? Will one more fossil, saved from metamorphosis, transform the daily existence and understanding of all humans on earth? When protective resistant geology gets in the way of describing past life, biochemistry, mathematics and engineering offer the determined paleontologist alternatives to picks and sledgehammers but perhaps not to ethical questions… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479111092846-MVSQB5BO187R8478ZU46/Cradle+to+Grave.jpg Compendium of Living Enquiry 2016 - Cradle to Grave Earth Sciences: Potamology Where does this river flow? Does it flow to the sea, another river or to an inland lake? For how long will it flow after rain breaks its banks? At its furthest margins, will the river dry up before reaching another water body? Can you imagine meeting the source, or standing at the furthest end of the furthest tributary? Can you imagine your toes meeting these insignificant trickles without ever knowing the full length of beds and banks and the power of fresh flowing water on the ground? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479111178743-KG03RED8JQZW6HWLMZIN/Crystal+Habit.jpg Compendium of Living Enquiry 2016 - Crystal Habit Earth Sciences: Mineralogy Like so many characters in human society, offering essential and enriching components, and also destructive potential, rocks and minerals pop out from professional and amateur collections around the world. Density, hardness, tenacity, cleavage, fracture, parting, luster, colour, streak, luminescence, diaphaneity, magnetism, electrical conductivity, radioactivity, solubility in acid: what can be known in the palm of your hand without microscopes, x-rays or vacuums? Did you know that about 100 new minerals are discovered and named each year? Will you ever find yourself looking through the glass at your achievement… or perhaps the mystery that has evaded you for your whole working life? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479111372131-G6UCPODXVTFPCIBIWNN9/Data+Wrangling.jpg Compendium of Living Enquiry 2016 - Data Wrangling Life Sciences: Genetics Imagine being part of the international research effort to sequence and map all human genes- the Human Genome Project that was begun in 1990 and completed in 2003. The Project revealed approximately 20,500 genes and their locations. Imagine having estimated the number of genes to be over 100,000 and learning there were significantly less. What now with this extremely large data set? How will you wrangle the ethical, legal and social implications of this big genetic data? Do you offer your own cheek to be scientifically swabbed? What of the cheeks of your children? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479111470720-WDD2W4EA9FKMD1696QXX/Fantastic+Fungi.jpg Compendium of Living Enquiry 2016 - Fantastic Fungi Life Sciences: Mycology Where on earth did you find such enormous fungi? Have these fungi been specially bred to confer some benefit to humans- such as creating new cancer and obesity therapies? Or are these undiscovered mega-fungi thriving on an anthropocene food supply? Once you know these answers, imagine harvesting and bringing them back to your laboratory. Are the compounds in these fungi toxic or beneficial? Where in the human body do the compounds work at the cell, organ and animal level? Will you use other animals to answer this potent question? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479110421358-SQ5DL67GHFLHC63ZNSUA/Finding+Neutrino.jpg Compendium of Living Enquiry 2016 - Finding Neutrino Physical Sciences: Astronomy Deep underground, isolated from cosmic rays and other background radiation, a pristine neutrino detector offers an astronomer the opportunity to find an elusive ‘flavour’- electron, muon and tau, which he first encountered in utero and which has eluded him for decades. Every day above ground, the sun emits billions of neutrinos and they pass through his body- between the atoms in his flesh and bones and everything around him. Ejected by violent astronomical events in distant galaxies they linger on earth, transferring energy, penetrating dreams and teasing intellects. A quick flash of light is all there is to mark their existence. Will he be equipped with enough sensitivity? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479111568441-1X8WZRM929QOA0X42RLY/Home+Sweet+Lab.jpg Compendium of Living Enquiry 2016 - Home Sweet Lab Physical Sciences: Chemistry When you are not at work stirring chemicals, studying composition, structure, properties and interactions, plying reagents and catalysts, where does your mind go? What entropies on the shelf as you energize with your hands? Do you, like the alchemists of old, seek to turn a common subject into figurative ‘gold’? What happens when art and science are cast together? Will they be exalted to a dynamic equilibrium or will they stubbornly remain in static lone pairs? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479111660946-8A55LIPP8B9QJSOUK4LY/Junior+Assembly.jpg Compendium of Living Enquiry 2016 - Junior Assembly Physical Sciences: Robotics Can you imagine a day where someone suggests that robots would be a good alternative to humans for mechanical tasks in busy hospital nurseries? Don’t robots work day and night without meal or fail? How far would you let machines move, space and rock cots as if they were plant pots, and perhaps even monitor restless infant movements? Are you comfortable trusting advanced machines to more complex tasks for fragile bodies such as changing and feeding? This robot scene is a complete fiction but the high cost of labour and overburdened workforce led to the first assembly lines so… what next? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479111759600-UI75XWCOS6MJEURKXNPD/OM%3F.jpg Compendium of Living Enquiry 2016 - O-M-? Physical Sciences- Cymatics Imagine trickling fine sand onto a membrane and passing sound through it, only to find that the sand arranges itself into a pattern. How do you feel as you ‘see sound’? You pass from frequency to frequency, experimenting with harmonies, trying your favourite music, watching the sand respond with different geometric patterns. You try a sound you learned in lunchtime yoga and suddenly you see a sacred pattern emerge. How did the ancients know about the correlation between musical pitches and geometry? Is this real science or is this cosmology or magic? How will your peers review your dabbles in the beautiful geometry of music? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479111858840-XS9MO2S9WDMZGAULGUDQ/Outfoxing+Vulcan.jpg Compendium of Living Enquiry 2016 - Outfoxing Vulcan Earth Sciences: Volcanology Do these minor eruptions mean that a bigger volcano is about to roar to life? Where has the seismic activity been recorded? How does the emission of toxic gases promote life on earth? Does the changing shape of the Earth correlate with volcanic eruptions around the world? To understand the volcano takes a special kind of attention- a life-in-hand-at-every-second awareness of your body amidst boiling volcanic products. A slip of attention, mishap or sudden withdrawal of geological consent will permanently arrest your scientific enquiries. How is your iron-cast courage faring in your aluminium suit? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479111955005-L2DKH29M1L0VR75Y9S46/Over+Exposed.jpg Compendium of Living Enquiry 2016 - Over Exposed Earth Sciences: Meteorology Where will this twister touch down? Will this one be more or less destructive than the previous one? In which direction is this twister spinning? Do they all spin that way? Can you imagine the howl of the wind and the scent of wet grass and ozone in the air? Can you imagine the electrification of the hair on the back of your neck as you face the storm? How can you stand being so exposed, holding your high definition camera up to the force that would destroy you both in a heartbeat? Assuming you make it home, who can you tell that will attentively listen to your observations? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479111988802-31D4MRSXKA2TOV4R8Y06/Paintbrush+Army.jpg Compendium of Living Enquiry 2016 - Paintbrush Army Life Sciences- Agriculture A fictional scene in which people are now dispatched with paintbrushes to do less well what insects were once taken for granted to do- pollinate agricultural crops like almonds. Agricultural scientists taught us that 80% of our crops require pollination to set seed. Before pollution, chemicals, changing climate, pests and pathogens and loss of biodiversity had an impact, one third of every bite of our food was attributable to insect pollinators. How do you feel about taking over the job of a bee? How many flowers do you think would grow on a tree? How many trees do you think you could pollinate in a day? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479112100201-VMX9B31TLV4DW0TPQ4G9/Insect+Drones.jpg Compendium of Living Enquiry 2016 - Insect Drones Life Sciences- Entomology Imagine… The first controlled flights of robotic insects took place in 2013. Things have come a long way in the last 50 years since then. Now when the entomologist goes out in the field with a light, sheet, and aspirator, hoping to capture a new species, robotic insects that mimic natural behaviour arrive in droves. The droning of night insects has taken on a different meaning now as the new drones buzz, click and whir towards the light. At least drone mosquitoes have been programmed to inject repellant at regular intervals… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479112187179-594OVDP9MGB9AP58QER0/Prone+to+Machines.jpg Compendium of Living Enquiry 2016 - Prone to Machines Life Sciences- Medicine A semi-fictitious scene of medical treatments being executed exclusively by robots. How realistic is it that robots perform open surgery? Would you trust a machine to keep you sedated, manage complex operations and remain error-free for the duration of major surgery? How much do you trust a continuous power source? Would you trust your loved ones to such a scenario? Would a computer make judgments differently to a human if confronted by a complex set of variables? How would a machine consider is human quality of life? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479112301461-WLTATBI5IJ9VI8G3PYBI/Roof+of+Heaven+Re-Imagined.jpg Compendium of Living Enquiry 2016 - Roof of Heaven Re-Imagined Physical Sciences- Astronomy In the 18th century, a pilgrim on hands and knees considered the Roof of Heaven, with small villages spread over hill and dale beneath an open-eyed sun. The unknown artist imagined the heavens to be filled with machinery- cogs and wheels and the like. Here the scene is re-imagined with a few ‘tweaks of modernity’. What do we now know of the astronomical ‘machinery’ in which Earth is found? What body protects us and from what? Why might the modern astronomer be reaching for the comet? Why might the sun be depicted with closed eyes? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479112418945-ADJ489IPMNFINTZKDUO1/Slip+Stream.jpg Compendium of Living Enquiry 2016 - Slip Stream Life Sciences- Palynology Is this a capture or controlled release of pollen into the environment? Are these pollen grains native or exotic or genetically engineered? Does wind or some other force more easily distribute some pollen grains? Why is pollen from one species effective in pollinating only plants of that species and not others? Does pollen look the same when it is wet, dry, exposed to UV, frozen or burnt? How long does pollen remain viable in the landscape? Can you find pollen in the fossil record? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479112504723-8ANJ3J7BJG9EL9QHUOJB/Spanner+in+the+Works.jpg Compendium of Living Enquiry 2016 - Spanner in the Works Physical Sciences- Mechanics How do gravity, magnetic and electrical fields, temperature and motion interfere with mechanical accuracy? Who needs precision? What happens when ill-synchronized machines are used? Considering time, did you know that you need a really accurate clock to measure distances well? Some atomic clocks are so precise they will not lose a second for 15 billion years. Clocks with nanosecond precision in GPS satellites enable us to navigate to within a couple of feet. Perhaps those who value precision most are those who want to keep from getting lost. So where are you now and where are you going? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479112023682-7IG3LSMR4OFX0P85I45V/Wherefore+Art+Thou.jpg Compendium of Living Enquiry 2016 - Wherefore Art Thou? Life Sciences- Ecology How do you go progress forward when confronted by a wall of vegetation? How do you find a tiny mammal in all the undergrowth? The radio tracker is signaling that an animal is close by but you know that poachers are prowling nearby too. How will you explain to a group of hungry tribesmen with weapons and minimal education, that their government in the name of global ecology sanctions your trespass on their territory? Do you love this mammal so much that you would go to your grave over it? What is more dangerous- the forest or the poachers? http://findiflooshki.com/far-flung-universe-2017-1 daily 0.75 2017-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1486545806949-AGXVIVG5940LWJ9JQ961/DSC_0324+narrow+150+dpi.jpg Far Flung Universe 2017 - Scaling Up Scaling Up The term ‘squamulose’ refers to the scale-like lobes that appear on this type of lichen. The ‘scales’ advance from the outer edge and often die in the centre. The residue contributes to enabling higher plants to germinate and grow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1486545806949-AGXVIVG5940LWJ9JQ961/DSC_0324+narrow+150+dpi.jpg Far Flung Universe 2017 - Scaling Up Scaling Up The term ‘squamulose’ refers to the scale-like lobes that appear on this type of lichen. The ‘scales’ advance from the outer edge and often die in the centre. The residue contributes to enabling higher plants to germinate and grow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1486545834604-ZXQEYH778RGHY6R0GACM/DSC_0331+narrow+150+dpi.jpg Far Flung Universe 2017 - En Route to Florence En Route to Florence Florence Broadhurst was a famous Australian designer and businesswoman who drew inspiration from nature to devise wallpaper designs and fabric. Lichen too has a global clientele in fabric dyeing industries and is on a zigzag path to recognition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1486545860544-CLL4AX180NHCJBW7G2U4/DSC_0338+narrow+150+dpi.jpg Far Flung Universe 2017 - Petro Dishes Petro Dishes Just as Petri dishes hold experimental bacterial colonies, rock surfaces host experimental colonies of lichen. Though tough, the natural environment proves much more successful than laboratories for cultivating lichen and nobody fully knows why. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1486545889346-8BSPIVN2UUM9NIKFX5CH/DSC_0348+narrow+150+dpi.jpg Far Flung Universe 2017 - Blue Lacuna Blue Lacuna Between the rust and ragged edges of earth are vivid pockets of conflict. Men pin their weapons to outposts and see out life. Lichens live on the outposts and usher in life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1486545966847-KI8IN5MV4E81ZG3ZHR7D/DSC_0356+narrow+150+dpi.png Far Flung Universe 2017 - Decent Exposure Decent Exposure Although fissures could at first afford lichen protection from mechanical forces, in the long term they could also invite deathly shadows from upper vegetation. Either way, time will tell whether lichen is better off at the top or at the bottom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1486546005209-HYF4R092OWBPEAGH0RT8/DSC_0371+narrow+150+dpi.jpg Far Flung Universe 2017 - Multi Culture Multi Culture ‘Crustose’, ‘foliose’ and ‘fruticose’ are some of the names applied to the crusty, leaflike and branching forms of lichen. 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Australian grandmothers were gathering in silent, often knitting, protest against coal seam gas. My interest took me to the Australian National Herbarium where I wished to see in person a plant from the fossil record that has no seeds and can only clone itself. Today’s remnant plants (on the verge of extinction) are genetically identical to those in the fossil record from around 135,000 years old! Imagine my surprise to see the Herbarium flower specimens. With petals dried and lost, the flowers appear as nannas in quaint bonnets, gathered together in mute consternation. The sculpture is mounted on Huon pine- another ancient Tasmanian plant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1411132661494-E0YX3S13LQC3WM45SXFN/Face+to+Face+%28Acacia+with+pollen%29+low+res.jpg On the Verge 2014 - Face to Face (Acacia with pollen) Polymer clay/ sandstone, 64cmH x 26cmW x 25cmD This piece is inspired by a reproductive event that is on the verge of visibility for humans. Coming face to face with the release of acacia pollen requires a couple of thousand times magnification. The fluffy native flower that Australians know so well is made up of scores of anthers, each of which looks (under the microscope) like a heavily textured tube. Atop this tube is a purse-like structure with two slits that burst open, spilling coin-like pollen into the environment. The colours I have chosen are inspired by Australian sandstone and the vivid blue skies that receive and distribute tons of pollen each year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1411132668769-GFW2XWDRBJFF5QHTFPAE/Gone+Underground+%28Rhizanthella+orchid%29+low+res.jpg On the Verge 2014 - Gone underground (Rhizanthella slateri) Polymer clay/ found wood, 25cmH x 47cmW x 47cmD This sculpture pays tribute to a mysterious orchid and the ever-present threat to its survival that is presented by land clearing and the building of roads. The Eastern Underground Orchid was discovered in 1931 and is currently known in only 10 secret locations in NSW. It is a leafless orchid that lives underground in association with a mycorrhiza fungus, apparently to improve its uptake of nutrients. The orchid also flowers underground in October/ November, only sometimes emerging up to 2cm above the soil surface. Land clearing and the building of roads are a major threat to the plant but when the plant has literally ‘gone underground’, it is difficult to measure the extent of the threat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1411132679866-MS7QHYFUGDZK6A05W677/Into+the+Future+%28Psilotum+nudum%29+low+res.jpg On the Verge 2014 - Into the Future (Psilotum nudum) Polymer clay/ alcohol ink, 56cmH x56cmW x 22cmD This piece celebrates a very primitive plant (the Skeleton Fork Fern) together with its jelly-bean like pollen (which I have depicted after thousands of times magnification). The Skeleton Fork Fern, which is not a fern, has only half the vascular system of modern plants, but has been around for millions of years- well before the evolution of humans and modern plants. On a recent trip to Sydney, I found a few spindly specimens growing from a hairline fissure between sandstone blocks in a restaurant! After millions of years on Earth, I get the feeling it has some tricks that will enable it to outlive every one of us whether we notice it or not. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1411132711528-YQT6IRGWK1U3434W1LD3/Lest+We+Forget+%28Papaver+rhoeas%29+low+res+.jpg On the Verge 2014 - Lest we Forget (Papaver rhoeas) Polymer clay/ copper/ seed beads, 56cmH x 30cmW x 30cmD This sculpture presents two poppy buds, (one of which has fallen to ground on the verge of flowering) and a remembrance flower facing its past. Through its accidental association with human conflict, this common agricultural weed, a native of Europe, has been launched from the soil to international human attention. Today poppies proliferate in the strangest of sterile environments (malls, supermarkets, schools, houses of parliament) but mostly as impoverished mimics of their splendid botanical ancestors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1411132727471-N1GOWX63STCD2EII5ZTJ/Mountain+Warrior+%28Banksia+canei%29+low+res.jpg On the Verge 2014 - Mountain warrior (Banksia canei) Polymer clay/ weathered burl, 30cmH x 15cmW x 20cmD Banksia canei is a shrub that inhabits sub-alpine areas and impresses me with its survival spunk. Adult plants produce fruits that remain closed until they are burnt. The adult plant does not survive the fire that ensures the release of seeds. Prolonged cold temperatures are then required to stratify the seeds. Can you see the impact of climate change on such a plant? Rooted to its spot, it cannot chase a retreating snow line. When the bushfires arise, the parent dies without fulfilling its potential- to produce progeny with some prospect of carrying on. The seeds will fall to the ground never to germinate. However, we may not yet have the full picture… Banksia canei is the first recorded indigenous species of Proteaceae to become established in Australia outside its natural range. It has become established in the mild near-coastal climate of Western Australia, where the seeds would rarely be stratified. It suggests that this mountain warrior has fighting spirit still. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1411132808715-VENTZR43V9HEWZXTBRBQ/Schoolyard+Bully+%28Bull+Thistle%29.jpg On the Verge 2014 - Schoolyard Bully (Bull Thistle) Polymer clay/ alcohol ink, 50cmH x 27cmW x 27cmD This sculpture of a thistle bud, replete with ripening pink seeds, emerged from the literal pedestrian verge. On my daily walk to collect my children from school, I became witness to something of a parable beside the car park. A thistle plant was growing directly beneath a signpost. The pole prevented the gardener from mowing down the weed. In the grit and fumes, this lone bull thistle grew to an enormous size. It pushed out aggressively spiked shoots and flowers that every day snagged stockings, schoolbags and small children. One day, I found it had vanished from its pole position. Someone had trampled it- leaves; stem and all- absolutely bruising flat. This was a fate from which it has never recovered but I still keep watch for its progeny. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1411132847389-56LYLB1CMF5GYYQU45G7/Common+Gold+%28Calendula+officinalis+seed%29+low+res+copy+2.jpg On the Verge 2014 - Common Gold (Calendula officinalis) Polymer clay/24K gold, 50cmH x 18cmW x 10cmD The title of this sculpture might appear a misnomer since 24 carat gold is not at all common. I urge you to value more highly the seeds of what is usually taken to be a simple and utterly pedestrian yellow-flowering garden weed. Calendula is one of a few plants that produce not one but three types of seed on the one seed head- each unique spiralling architecture is more or less designed for dispersal via different methods. Given the proliferation of the plant in local gardens, it is clearly a successful survival strategy. Calendula seed oils have a high rate of oxidation and are used in paints and coatings industry, and have applications in the manufacture of cosmetics and some industrial polymers. Recent findings also cast a spotlight on the body-fat lowering and anti-carcinogenic properties of Calendula, which are especially applicable to human leukaemia and colon cancer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1411132951355-PM7HMFYAOQ9BH738WQ1M/The+Kiss+%28Tiger+Lily+pollen+germinating%29+low+res.jpg On the Verge 2014 - The Kiss (Tiger lily pollen germinating) Polymer clay, 48cmH x 31cmW x 33cmD To the naked eye, a tiger lily is a beautiful flower with romantic appeal. At 2000 times magnification, a scanning electron microscope reveals simultaneously alien and familiar features. The surface of the sticky lobed stigma in the middle of the flower is covered in slender (female) filaments, each of which seeks a single (male) pollen grain. Once a pollen grain has landed on a receptive filament, molecular signaling causes the pollen grain to germinate. When we clip the pollen-laden anthers from tiger lily flowers (to prevent staining of human clothing and furniture), we interrupt this story… ‘the kiss’ will never be fulfilled. For the romantics, I have used phosphoric polymer clay over the surface of this sculpture. This means that the whole sculpture has a soft glow in the dark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1411132972714-K18SQ4RP3684N7B7GGWZ/Starship+%28Firebush+Seed%29+low+res.jpg On the Verge 2014 - Starship (African Firebush seed) Polymer clay, 50cmH x11cmW x 16cmD As I was making this sculpture of an African Firebush seed (around 8mm long), I noted that bookings were being taken for the first civilian flights into space. Engineers deliberately build space ships and suits like seeds, since nature has refined their engineering over thousands of years. I find the highly detailed aerodynamics of this seed particularly striking. Consider the poignancy of a botanical spacecraft (seed) passing through extremes of temperature, humidity, radiation and time. The seed delivers its ‘cargo’ to an unknown and almost always hostile destination. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1411133014443-FFIH5W4WMSK9NIRW4BO0/Mortal+Combat+%28Mistletoe+vs+Eucalyptus%29+hi+res+copy.jpg On the Verge 2014 - Mortal Combat (Mistletoe vs Eucalypt) Polymer clay, 52cmH x 56cmW x 52cmD This sculpture is inspired by the naturally quite well matched contest between parasitic mistletoes and host eucalypts- after fire has ravaged them both. Growing up with weekly drives through the country to the coast, mistletoes were a familiar sight. We came to know the eucalypt trees most heavily infested and over the years, watched them sicken under the pressures of parasitism (primarily water loss). Bushfires normally rid the eucalypts of mistletoes however land clearing minimizes this effect and so unfairly advantages mistletoes. If you look closely at the apparently defeated eucalypt, you will find it is the actual victor: the emergence of epicormic shoots heralds the re-sprouting of healthy limbs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1411133045491-Y513I8WSNJIWB1H6XC2W/Sleeper+Cell+%28Nigella+seed+with+flower%29+low+res+copy+2.jpg On the Verge 2014 - Sleeper cell (Nigella seed with flower) Polymer clay, 42cmH x 35cmW x 20cmD This piece emerged during Egypt’s Spring when ideologies (like seeds) were suddenly activated, having lain inconspicuously dormant. With near scientific accuracy, this sculpture represents the intricate surface detail of a single microscopic seed of Nigella damascena or ‘Love-in-a-Mist’ (around 200 times magnification). From this emerges a hint of its flower as well as a seed of the related Nigella sativa (black cumin). Cumin is one of the oldest known culinary and medicinal plants. Seeds and oil have been used around the world as a spice, to cure a wide variety of ailments, and even as a nutritional grain (similar to wheat). Nigella was so important in ancient Egypt that seeds were buried with pharaohs like Tutankhamen and proved viable in modern times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1411133118353-XNPBS0DZBQ5EDTZNJGV6/Love+Thy+Neighbour+%28Lichen+on+rare+pheasant+wood%29+low+res+copy.jpg On the Verge 2014 - Love Thy Neighbour- Lichen Polymer clay/ pheasant wood, 47cmH x 30cmW x 23cmD Lichens comprise two almost inseparable organisms – a fungus and a photosynthetic partner (either an alga or a cyanobacteria). Attempts have been made to separate the two partners but neither ‘neighbour’ thrives without the other. Nobody knows how many lichen species exist on earth. Estimates range between 13,500 and 30,000. At any rate, the partnership is so successful, lichens can colonize habitats that remain out of reach for us. My use of rare pheasant wood symbolizes the additional fact that human neighbours can generate new habitats for lichen, which would otherwise be very rare or completely absent in the natural environment (for example gravestones, garden ornaments, play equipment with ideal aspects and fresh air). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1411133165788-W92KPZF5V1BLM1DPAQC9/Satellite+Tracker+%28Borage+seed+with+flower%29+low+res+copy+2.jpg On the Verge 2014 - Satellite tracking (Borage seed with flower) Polymer clay, 47cmH x 34cmW x 18cmD This sculpture depicts a highly magnified borage seed (normally only 4mm long) with its flower (around 25mm). The barbed and ornate surface of the seed ensures good adhesion to animals and hence wide dispersal. Last year, I planted six borage seedlings in my home garden bed as a food source for bees. My children marvelled at the similarity between borage flowers and the satellite dishes they saw on rooftops in Queanbeyan. The seeds have proven incredibly fecund. Even though the plants are rooted to the spot, they have multiplied to around 100 plants and have managed to traverse the breadth of our garden in vivid blue tracks. http://findiflooshki.com/media daily 0.75 2015-04-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1429619689903-9VLS21LCDXIB1L3S9K3H/150421-0028.png Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1429619704084-EOEXCBHD9N7L0T9979BO/150421-0029.png Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1412758860340-LZL1B1NG27WLQ8SR35NV/141008-0001.png Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1412758875511-BYPGD2BOOWF1PM7JMUTQ/141008-0002.png Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1412758833409-IZ02SC2KXFSQBRV2JH67/141008-0003.png Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1411050693852-94X7AQRSGZI1A41BXD6R/Cultivate.jpg Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1412758766414-13MPOO8O79K3W2LNEENP/141007-0001.png Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1410527424104-DTADJZ4HS1A587L6LWXP/140912-0003.png Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1410527887214-0QDCPZKVHJP5MU24GPGZ/140912-0005.png Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1410527060306-GU2LJTXP154MS8LJ8NH9/140912-0001.png Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1410527347186-5RMF5FFTRB8AGULEWNUW/140912-0002.png Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1410526422451-JW55Q5T2KA3TLMS2I24H/140801-0001+copy.png Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1410527914788-XRJJ1GVP8N3VQD3X4H8T/140912-0004.png Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1412759404356-0XWJ6CKHKWKVM24OQZDZ/Maras+Media+copy.jpg Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1410526356606-8TQPRE21B0RO88EQHSHJ/Maras+MediaII+copy.jpg Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1412767398242-CJRRMIG4HMAQM3KHQRBQ/speaker.jpg Media - Radio Interview Link to radio interview   http://findiflooshki.com/testinstagram daily 0.75 2015-08-02 http://findiflooshki.com/interface-2015-1 daily 0.75 2015-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446900140606-DPC0UYZAR4147UCNRYC7/No+Chance%21.png Interface 2015 - No Chance! A screw grass seed lands on moss and attempts to penetrate the crust. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446900274147-MZL9G4JLZDANA78VL0ZO/A+Little+on+Virtue+%26+Destruction.png Interface 2015 - A Little on Virtue and Destruction An attempt to come to terms with the inevitable damage caused by (even justifiable!) curiosity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446900355085-EQJDSNJ0R1V3PY3AYHYW/Outgoing+Tide.png Interface 2015 - Outgoing Tide A lichen study that evokes waves on a shore. 'Outgoing tide' refers to the many human centred challenges to lichen survival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446900429059-WBT3LB95HOU6R50FBSU3/Sinuosity+of+Flow.png Interface 2015 - Sinuosity of Flow A study on the behaviour of water on moss. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446900477927-C5GFZ4DGDDR5LW2CDQC0/An+Increasingly+Rare+Phenomenon.png Interface 2015 - An Increasingly Rare Phenomenon An observation about the ageing demographic and lifelong devotion of lichenologists / bryologists / mycologists in research institutions around the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446900620964-0KCOQVMP57AHJS2HJFIK/Grass+Ceiling.png Interface 2015 - Grass Ceiling A metaphor of invisible barriers to success. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446900685854-U49LY1YF7G87FHTS1WY1/Desert+Encounter.png Interface 2015 - Desert Encounter 'Ship of the desert' meets another great traveller - vagrant lichen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446901530124-QL88NFCECHMM3OSDTE6N/Crust+Tryptch.png Interface 2015 - Crust Tryptch A playful study of light and shadow in common crust assemblages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446901639476-8JCFJNEBDQEM2XH8KD46/Tapestry+with+Burrs.png Interface 2015 - Tapestry with burrs A common assemblage of moss with twigs and seeds. Crust can prevent invasion by foreign plant species. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446900821347-YCYVJ4V4W3FKPUWNC9F2/Found+I.png Interface 2015 - Found 1 An observation about competing interests in the study of soil crusts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446900946396-3BN9JPZJGAZPLXM4UVRH/Understanding+Erosion.png Interface 2015 - Understanding Erosion A disturbingly real prospect if biological soil crusts are destroyed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446901748670-ZJEKCA3YLTK1S4E2N3CU/Support+Structures.png Interface 2015 - Support Structures A metaphor of an artistic residency in a scientific institution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446901848554-75688Z8IY5GYWT7MEOTD/Stamping+Ground.png Interface 2015 - Stamping Ground There are around 150 species of Xanthoparmelia lichen in Australia, which can tolerate only low levels of disturbance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446901928739-J28LQM5SO7PEGHLNPW6C/Frost+Heave.png Interface 2015 - Frost Heave Frozen moisture in the uppermost millimetres of soil spill pebbles into sunlight. Crusts tolerate some of the most extreme conditions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446902183623-X3XMHZT8MKSXEYTZSL7O/Zero+Meets+A+Hundred.png Interface 2015 - Zero Meets a Hundred Even with a hundred years of experience in the most extreme conditions, crust is helpless in the hands of innocent curiosity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446902023291-YLN50O78KA928PS7TRIM/Folios.png Interface 2015 - Folios Manila folders and paperbark at ANBG. Some of my earliest visual inspiration at Black Mt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446896282135-3XE3JEX4WDEJYCXX06LV/03+rip+copy.png Interface 2015 - Either Way, You Need Crust An original concept drawing in which an artist's grave announces the same message as all preceding scientists who contributed knowledge during their lifetimes. Now all graves stand in the same mute quarter, only to be colonised by lichen and perhaps also visited by those who remember. (graphite on Arches paper 36cm x 44cm) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446896243458-7FY8ONTQHUBWYCYUBZ69/The+Scream+of+Nature+%28small%29.png Interface 2015 - The Scream of Nature II After Edvard Munch's famous painting titled 'Der Schrei Der Natur'. In my version, a spent snapdragon seed (Antirrhinum majus) screams from a bed of moss and lichen. I discovered this scene quite accidently while weeding and was compelled to share the parallel. (graphite on Arches paper 78cm x 58cm) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446896260200-AMCY3SQ2I7JHZFJ0QFI7/Found+II+%28small%29.png Interface 2015 - Found II After Frank McCubbin's sketch titled 'Found' in which a man cradles a young girl who had become lost in a wild Australian forest. In the paradigm to which I am witness, older scientists cradle the last of botanical species in the same forests. (graphite on Arches paper 44cm x 36cm) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446896202189-7JMMSYOCE6V3PID8EXNT/L%27Origine+Du+Monde+%28small%29.png Interface 2015 - L'Origine Du Monde This work references a famous painting completed in 1866 by Gustave Courbet. the original work pays (outrageously direct!) homage to the origin of human life. My fascination with biological soil crusts renders the theme differently although with equally strict adherence to the values of Realism. (graphite on Arches paper 78cm x 58cm) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446896393030-OSEK9HB6B47FUNOIZ6UP/Astrohort+%28small%29.jpg Interface 2015 - Astrohort This work envisages a time when lichen is cultivated in space, in order to pave the way for higher plant and animal life on other planets. (polymer clay on wood with metal leaf and alcohol ink, 58cm x 30cm x 36cm) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446896220769-XTO2G4EKBJ3R1RWKX5K2/Fruiting+Bodies.jpg Interface 2015 - Fruiting Bodies Made from recycled materials, this work was inspired by a scene I encountered by lying on my stomach with a hand lens. Sometimes, human scale experiences is the only way to raise awareness of microscopic stories.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1446898041193-5AQLLM3ZKV1E27XXOWB8/Time+of+the+Essence+sculpture+by+Natalie+Maras.jpg Interface 2015 - Time of Essence A symbolic crust illustrating that every organism has its own time span. If left to develop at its own pace, it will have a chance to make an important contribution to its community. (polymer clay on glass: 4hr - 42cm / 60min - 20cm / 15min - 15cm / 5min - 12.5cm / 3min - 10.5cm) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447152792653-7LBOWK7BBUT1K2V2NK5T/tunnel+book+side+-+sm.jpg Interface 2015 - Consolation A 'tunnel book' of biological soil crusts. Each 'page' represents a deeper layer of crust. From top to bottom: leaf litter, lichen, moss, fungi, pebbles and a final consolation. We will not be around to witness the worst consequences of the destruction of biological crusts. We shall experience a lesser personal impact much sooner. (aluminium, 60cm h x 40cm w) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447152824609-C5B4ZRMVIGTNEK274AKH/tunnel+book+-+sm.jpg Interface 2015 - Consolation A 'tunnel book' of biological soil crusts. Each 'page' represents a deeper layer of crust. From top to bottom: leaf litter, lichen, moss, fungi, pebbles and a final consolation. We will not be around to witness the worst consequences of the destruction of biological crusts. We shall experience a lesser personal impact much sooner. (aluminium, 60cm h x 40cm w) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153029074-0YBZPEHBRRZDQCRRZFJ8/box01.jpg Interface 2015 - Valley of the Shadow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153249349-SGENXLLIH4Y0TYILINPU/box07.jpg Interface 2015 - Chondropsis sp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153189384-ORFFNF6ZJBF5Q37RHX5E/box05.jpg Interface 2015 - Dawsonia sp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153063538-TBBOG8RM2U3ABIKAOMFB/box02.jpg Interface 2015 - Xanthoparmelia sp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153145395-SB0XFPLD71T9615OCRC6/box04.jpg Interface 2015 - Cudbear https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153222542-JHN52TZYWMN3V2RC8VHL/box06.jpg Interface 2015 - Outcrop https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153106369-QQE5W880L8FFS79LM2VT/box03.jpg Interface 2015 - Association https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153269372-1I97Z56PLHBOOVTB2DGQ/box08.jpg Interface 2015 - Cladonia sp. with twigs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153306434-5AWJEJJCA7OGUWPADIEB/box09.jpg Interface 2015 - Barbula sp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153355776-RG22BAN4YMONDX4PG88Q/box10.jpg Interface 2015 - Lecidea sp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153411424-P0P9XGICX1BD26G5RHZS/box11.jpg Interface 2015 - Bryum sp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153437377-ZWKM3TZ2Z2ZNH2TO5PVX/box12.jpg Interface 2015 - Cladonia sp. with leaves https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153464412-9ZP82UJ12TIQ2SS5GRVN/box13.jpg Interface 2015 - Caloplaca sp. and Acarospora sp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153487666-5BI3AIBEEJ50AXV04Q7E/box14.jpg Interface 2015 - Tapestry Crust https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153507220-YRYB9MD93JS7PTE8GJJF/box15.jpg Interface 2015 - Fork in the Path https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153534501-5TA8PEM15C7Z8FA48KNL/box16.jpg Interface 2015 - Sticks and Stones https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1447153557087-YUW34TZH1J2JHF84ZCE2/box17.jpg Interface 2015 - Cladia sp. http://findiflooshki.com/the-compendium-of-living-enquiry daily 0.75 2016-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479113797097-PIXQRDOH0HFIZ8GH29YR/161114-0002.png The Compendium of Living Enquiry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479110889992-BVBE19TKQAISWU4L1GOU/All+At+Sea.jpg The Compendium of Living Enquiry - All At Sea Earth Sciences: Oceanography Where do you begin to understand the mysteries of the earth’s oceans when even your feet are floating in water? It must feel at times an overwhelming task since marine life and ecosystems, ocean circulation, plate tectonics and the geology of the sea floor, as well as the chemical and physical properties of seawater are complex, inter-related and ever changing. When currents of change also run through oceans due to climate change, pollution, fishing, mining and transport, how will you accomplish robust longitudinal observations? Where do you find your firm place to stand in order to move the world? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479110758816-UFBMQ8PHMYRRSZ86XEZT/All+Over+Red+Rover.jpg The Compendium of Living Enquiry - All Over Red Rover Physical Sciences: Geodesy Imagine gathering the finance and people needed to sling a rocket 483 million kilometres through deep space, hoping to land on Mars. Trajectory errors are inconceivable at your end because they could lead to Rover missing Mars completely. How many times will you check and check again your calculations? Will storms, solar flares, meteorites and computer glitches threaten Rover on its journey? Will it endure its rapid entry and descend safely through the Martian atmosphere at about 19,000 kilometres per hour? Only by extraordinary technology, concentration and luck, does your Rover finally fulfil its potential on land. Whilst you would like Rover to roam all over, finding rocks and soils or perhaps water, will it all be over in less than 50 kilometres? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479110268406-FZ6C6SRIB485QB90W588/Between+Heaven+and+Earth.jpg The Compendium of Living Enquiry - Between Heaven and Earth Life Sciences: Botany Imagine dangling from a rope slightly above a tropical canopy. The air is heavy with moisture, and your clothing clings in the heat. The foliage of vines and trees is thrusting upwards to the light. You have just spotted a flower that blooms only once in 100 years. You have never seen it before but you know it from books and journals. Your assistant shouts up to you from the gloom below. Her voice sends birds panicking out of the treetops. Their brilliant feathered flashes and squawks startle you, threatening to topple your laptop. The sweat rolls, the insects bite, the birds fly, the rope descends into gloom and an irritable assistant needs help as your stunning find is just within reach overhead… Will you choose to reach above or descend to Earth? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479110994801-MD89914UWJUI59L22KD8/Constructive+Destruction.jpg The Compendium of Living Enquiry - Constructive Destruction Earth Sciences: Palaeontology How can you study traces of ancient life when they are encased in solid rock? How many gaps in the fossil record do you fill by artificially accelerating natural erosion? How can you justify breaking the foundation of early life especially when it has enabled your own theories to emerge? Will one more fossil, saved from metamorphosis, transform the daily existence and understanding of all humans on earth? When protective resistant geology gets in the way of describing past life, biochemistry, mathematics and engineering offer the determined paleontologist alternatives to picks and sledgehammers but perhaps not to ethical questions… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479111092846-MVSQB5BO187R8478ZU46/Cradle+to+Grave.jpg The Compendium of Living Enquiry - Cradle to Grave Earth Sciences: Potamology Where does this river flow? Does it flow to the sea, another river or to an inland lake? For how long will it flow after rain breaks its banks? At its furthest margins, will the river dry up before reaching another water body? Can you imagine meeting the source, or standing at the furthest end of the furthest tributary? Can you imagine your toes meeting these insignificant trickles without ever knowing the full length of beds and banks and the power of fresh flowing water on the ground? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479111178743-KG03RED8JQZW6HWLMZIN/Crystal+Habit.jpg The Compendium of Living Enquiry - Crystal Habit Earth Sciences: Mineralogy Like so many characters in human society, offering essential and enriching components, and also destructive potential, rocks and minerals pop out from professional and amateur collections around the world. Density, hardness, tenacity, cleavage, fracture, parting, luster, colour, streak, luminescence, diaphaneity, magnetism, electrical conductivity, radioactivity, solubility in acid: what can be known in the palm of your hand without microscopes, x-rays or vacuums? Did you know that about 100 new minerals are discovered and named each year? Will you ever find yourself looking through the glass at your achievement… or perhaps the mystery that has evaded you for your whole working life? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479111372131-G6UCPODXVTFPCIBIWNN9/Data+Wrangling.jpg The Compendium of Living Enquiry - Data Wrangling Life Sciences: Genetics Imagine being part of the international research effort to sequence and map all human genes- the Human Genome Project that was begun in 1990 and completed in 2003. The Project revealed approximately 20,500 genes and their locations. Imagine having estimated the number of genes to be over 100,000 and learning there were significantly less. What now with this extremely large data set? How will you wrangle the ethical, legal and social implications of this big genetic data? Do you offer your own cheek to be scientifically swabbed? What of the cheeks of your children? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479111470720-WDD2W4EA9FKMD1696QXX/Fantastic+Fungi.jpg The Compendium of Living Enquiry - Fantastic Fungi Life Sciences: Mycology Where on earth did you find such enormous fungi? Have these fungi been specially bred to confer some benefit to humans- such as creating new cancer and obesity therapies? Or are these undiscovered mega-fungi thriving on an anthropocene food supply? Once you know these answers, imagine harvesting and bringing them back to your laboratory. Are the compounds in these fungi toxic or beneficial? Where in the human body do the compounds work at the cell, organ and animal level? Will you use other animals to answer this potent question? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479110421358-SQ5DL67GHFLHC63ZNSUA/Finding+Neutrino.jpg The Compendium of Living Enquiry - Finding Neutrino Physical Sciences: Astronomy Deep underground, isolated from cosmic rays and other background radiation, a pristine neutrino detector offers an astronomer the opportunity to find an elusive ‘flavour’- electron, muon and tau, which he first encountered in utero and which has eluded him for decades. Every day above ground, the sun emits billions of neutrinos and they pass through his body- between the atoms in his flesh and bones and everything around him. Ejected by violent astronomical events in distant galaxies they linger on earth, transferring energy, penetrating dreams and teasing intellects. A quick flash of light is all there is to mark their existence. Will he be equipped with enough sensitivity? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479111568441-1X8WZRM929QOA0X42RLY/Home+Sweet+Lab.jpg The Compendium of Living Enquiry - Home Sweet Lab Physical Sciences: Chemistry When you are not at work stirring chemicals, studying composition, structure, properties and interactions, plying reagents and catalysts, where does your mind go? What entropies on the shelf as you energize with your hands? Do you, like the alchemists of old, seek to turn a common subject into figurative ‘gold’? What happens when art and science are cast together? Will they be exalted to a dynamic equilibrium or will they stubbornly remain in static lone pairs? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479111660946-8A55LIPP8B9QJSOUK4LY/Junior+Assembly.jpg The Compendium of Living Enquiry - Junior Assembly Physical Sciences: Robotics Can you imagine a day where someone suggests that robots would be a good alternative to humans for mechanical tasks in busy hospital nurseries? Don’t robots work day and night without meal or fail? How far would you let machines move, space and rock cots as if they were plant pots, and perhaps even monitor restless infant movements? Are you comfortable trusting advanced machines to more complex tasks for fragile bodies such as changing and feeding? This robot scene is a complete fiction but the high cost of labour and overburdened workforce led to the first assembly lines so… what next? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479111759600-UI75XWCOS6MJEURKXNPD/OM%3F.jpg The Compendium of Living Enquiry - O-M-? Physical Sciences- Cymatics Imagine trickling fine sand onto a membrane and passing sound through it, only to find that the sand arranges itself into a pattern. How do you feel as you ‘see sound’? You pass from frequency to frequency, experimenting with harmonies, trying your favourite music, watching the sand respond with different geometric patterns. You try a sound you learned in lunchtime yoga and suddenly you see a sacred pattern emerge. How did the ancients know about the correlation between musical pitches and geometry? Is this real science or is this cosmology or magic? How will your peers review your dabbles in the beautiful geometry of music? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479111858840-XS9MO2S9WDMZGAULGUDQ/Outfoxing+Vulcan.jpg The Compendium of Living Enquiry - Outfoxing Vulcan Earth Sciences: Volcanology Do these minor eruptions mean that a bigger volcano is about to roar to life? Where has the seismic activity been recorded? How does the emission of toxic gases promote life on earth? Does the changing shape of the Earth correlate with volcanic eruptions around the world? To understand the volcano takes a special kind of attention- a life-in-hand-at-every-second awareness of your body amidst boiling volcanic products. A slip of attention, mishap or sudden withdrawal of geological consent will permanently arrest your scientific enquiries. How is your iron-cast courage faring in your aluminium suit? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479111955005-L2DKH29M1L0VR75Y9S46/Over+Exposed.jpg The Compendium of Living Enquiry - Over Exposed Earth Sciences: Meteorology Where will this twister touch down? Will this one be more or less destructive than the previous one? In which direction is this twister spinning? Do they all spin that way? Can you imagine the howl of the wind and the scent of wet grass and ozone in the air? Can you imagine the electrification of the hair on the back of your neck as you face the storm? How can you stand being so exposed, holding your high definition camera up to the force that would destroy you both in a heartbeat? Assuming you make it home, who can you tell that will attentively listen to your observations? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479111988802-31D4MRSXKA2TOV4R8Y06/Paintbrush+Army.jpg The Compendium of Living Enquiry - Paintbrush Army Life Sciences- Agriculture A fictional scene in which people are now dispatched with paintbrushes to do less well what insects were once taken for granted to do- pollinate agricultural crops like almonds. Agricultural scientists taught us that 80% of our crops require pollination to set seed. Before pollution, chemicals, changing climate, pests and pathogens and loss of biodiversity had an impact, one third of every bite of our food was attributable to insect pollinators. How do you feel about taking over the job of a bee? How many flowers do you think would grow on a tree? How many trees do you think you could pollinate in a day? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479112100201-VMX9B31TLV4DW0TPQ4G9/Insect+Drones.jpg The Compendium of Living Enquiry - Insect Drones Life Sciences- Entomology Imagine… The first controlled flights of robotic insects took place in 2013. Things have come a long way in the last 50 years since then. Now when the entomologist goes out in the field with a light, sheet, and aspirator, hoping to capture a new species, robotic insects that mimic natural behaviour arrive in droves. The droning of night insects has taken on a different meaning now as the new drones buzz, click and whir towards the light. At least drone mosquitoes have been programmed to inject repellant at regular intervals… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479112187179-594OVDP9MGB9AP58QER0/Prone+to+Machines.jpg The Compendium of Living Enquiry - Prone to Machines Life Sciences- Medicine A semi-fictitious scene of medical treatments being executed exclusively by robots. How realistic is it that robots perform open surgery? Would you trust a machine to keep you sedated, manage complex operations and remain error-free for the duration of major surgery? How much do you trust a continuous power source? Would you trust your loved ones to such a scenario? Would a computer make judgments differently to a human if confronted by a complex set of variables? How would a machine consider is human quality of life? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479112301461-WLTATBI5IJ9VI8G3PYBI/Roof+of+Heaven+Re-Imagined.jpg The Compendium of Living Enquiry - Roof of Heaven Re-Imagined Physical Sciences- Astronomy In the 18th century, a pilgrim on hands and knees considered the Roof of Heaven, with small villages spread over hill and dale beneath an open-eyed sun. The unknown artist imagined the heavens to be filled with machinery- cogs and wheels and the like. Here the scene is re-imagined with a few ‘tweaks of modernity’. What do we now know of the astronomical ‘machinery’ in which Earth is found? What body protects us and from what? Why might the modern astronomer be reaching for the comet? Why might the sun be depicted with closed eyes? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479112418945-ADJ489IPMNFINTZKDUO1/Slip+Stream.jpg The Compendium of Living Enquiry - Slip Stream Life Sciences- Palynology Is this a capture or controlled release of pollen into the environment? Are these pollen grains native or exotic or genetically engineered? Does wind or some other force more easily distribute some pollen grains? Why is pollen from one species effective in pollinating only plants of that species and not others? Does pollen look the same when it is wet, dry, exposed to UV, frozen or burnt? How long does pollen remain viable in the landscape? Can you find pollen in the fossil record? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479112504723-8ANJ3J7BJG9EL9QHUOJB/Spanner+in+the+Works.jpg The Compendium of Living Enquiry - Spanner in the Works Physical Sciences- Mechanics How do gravity, magnetic and electrical fields, temperature and motion interfere with mechanical accuracy? Who needs precision? What happens when ill-synchronized machines are used? Considering time, did you know that you need a really accurate clock to measure distances well? Some atomic clocks are so precise they will not lose a second for 15 billion years. Clocks with nanosecond precision in GPS satellites enable us to navigate to within a couple of feet. Perhaps those who value precision most are those who want to keep from getting lost. So where are you now and where are you going? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1479112023682-7IG3LSMR4OFX0P85I45V/Wherefore+Art+Thou.jpg The Compendium of Living Enquiry - Wherefore Art Thou? Life Sciences- Ecology How do you go progress forward when confronted by a wall of vegetation? How do you find a tiny mammal in all the undergrowth? The radio tracker is signaling that an animal is close by but you know that poachers are prowling nearby too. How will you explain to a group of hungry tribesmen with weapons and minimal education, that their government in the name of global ecology sanctions your trespass on their territory? Do you love this mammal so much that you would go to your grave over it? What is more dangerous- the forest or the poachers? http://findiflooshki.com/far-flung-universe-2017 daily 0.75 2017-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1486543065421-XT169J3NJ3ZOCFEYBGZ3/DSC_0379+square+150+dpi.jpg Far Flung Universe 2017 Pulse of Life I once saw a cluster of ‘Pixie Cup’ lichen sheltering in the charred remains of a eucalypt log. As I hovered above the tiny scene, I felt like the astronaut looking down at earth from space and realising the awesome and vulnerable pulse of life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1486543851076-U1Z34LQURFD1JPCL8P5V/DSC_0525+150+dpi.jpg Far Flung Universe 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1486543894031-J87TMUX1LYFBM02I2TEJ/DSC_0545+150+dpi.jpg Far Flung Universe 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1486543934677-JG661ESGX64LBGLTTFI8/DSC_0526+150+dpi.jpg Far Flung Universe 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1486543979794-IL03I8P38UHPH9FSHAG1/DSC_0534+150+dpi.jpg Far Flung Universe 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1486544018545-SQQFPDKUQBKFL13GS54Z/DSC_0540+150+dpi.jpg Far Flung Universe 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1486544065375-R204IVDNXEP9UZ671L7Z/DSC_0553+150+dpi.jpg Far Flung Universe 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1486544106374-R42SYDG9I32AG7L1J6V3/DSC_0563+150+dpi.jpg Far Flung Universe 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1486544229950-IEPQ38944VVG4KTNYNEA/DSC_0557+150+dpi.jpg Far Flung Universe 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1486545144900-48AYWJF7ZT13NVT6A3H3/DSC_0567+150+dpi.jpg Far Flung Universe 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1486544825071-C6W3LOE726N1UU2BKVHW/DSC_0569+150+dpi.jpg Far Flung Universe 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1486544911265-PV3R3NNIMQDXCU7L0M2C/DSC_0561+150+dpi.jpg Far Flung Universe 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1486545061038-VCHJFDIJKFCYVTM3XAE9/DSC_0581+150+dpi.jpg Far Flung Universe 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1486544988781-NUWJL4GJD4FRN2JH1TE0/DSC_0585+150+dpi.jpg Far Flung Universe 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1486544344724-9Z2UIOPSJ9YQQVWDSS3A/DSC_0589+150+dpi.jpg Far Flung Universe 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1486544741510-C1SLZU6T74QMAX837A3X/DSC_0591+150+dpi.jpg Far Flung Universe 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1486544406052-3FRFYLEQU99MQNLVNR9L/DSC_0593+150+dpi.jpg Far Flung Universe 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1486543221170-DQXFMTQGQ5GWH8QOQZDV/DSC_0486+square+150+dpi.jpg Far Flung Universe 2017 Intergalactic Perhaps cosmologists will one day look to lichen to understand how the universe works on a large scale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1486543331439-W4G8DGVVPQHISKL6BT5L/DSC_0518+square+150+dpi.jpg Far Flung Universe 2017 Walk in the Park One sunny afternoon, I took a walk in a remnant bush reserve. The light fell on a fallen everlasting daisy surrounded by a field of lichen. The rays of sunshine lit up dense foliage leaving me to wonder at progress in the face of hardship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1486543115431-Z5ZYMMUKX6YKU2K5X141/DSC_0490+square+150+dpi+%28redone%29.jpg Far Flung Universe 2017 Space Time Continuum I have been visiting the same beach for years and observing how this galaxy of foliose lichen occupies space over time. Over the years, despite erosion, salt spray and harsh ultraviolet light, it has rippled over rock, covering it in a lace-like continuum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1486543167446-OSR8DM64MBRFDVQ30HQW/DSC_0510+square+150+dpi.jpg Far Flung Universe 2017 Fields and Fences It is occasionally strange to recognise some lichenised rock faces as the fenced fields we see from airplane windows. Perhaps lichen, if we are humble enough to dip a knee and see, offers an accessible scale of learning to the everyday student. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5115a89ce4b0cb217572ebf4/1486543265988-GJ2Q691LGSOFYBJTCHDZ/DSC_0402+square+150+dpi.jpg Far Flung Universe 2017 Hanging Gardens of Char Burnt out fences, broken structures, and bare metal in baking sun…no matter how discarded and disjointed the surfaces that humans present to nature, lichen can transform barren places into verdant vertical gardens.