Shiny filaments of polyester
static yet sprouting
spindly roots and branches

Fibre from the techno-sphere
rendered into an
exclamation of grasses

Avian sounds playing in the background
at odds with these synthetic forms
woven, meshed, bound
coiled, spun, and splayed.

Neatly wild
in their perfect glossy blackness,
too pristine
to come from soil.

By Jan Pittard 2020 ©

Response to artworks: Dotti le Sage, Picnic for the for the Trees, 2020 
Dotti le Sage, Intercontinental Picnic, 2020

The artist says she is illustrating
our symbiotic, ceremonial and social connections with trees.

She has superimposed images
of classic vessels and bric-a-brac shop china
on screen prints of plantation timber.

Strange to see a picnic site
set with genie bottles and Doultonware

Where are our discarded soft drink bottles,
Maccas wrappers and lethal plastic straws?

Have they charred with the perished forest
in the fires?

These pictures remain.

By Jan Pittard 2020 ©

Response to artwork: Christine Appleby, Peeling Away Series I – V, 2018

Calico tinsel spirals
suspended tubes and cylinders
dancing threadbare weaves
Sheer gossamer
with copper sheen