Rays of Light & the Eagles Flight
$2,500.00
‘Rays of Light & the Eagles Flight’
Bunurong
Gidja Walker
acrylic, acid sands, grass tree sap on canvas
61 x 46cm
Grass trees taught me about fire.
Right fire… wrong fire.
There are many different grass trees on different country.
Those in the Ngarkat mallee have survived repeated lightning strikes. They are coarse and tough. Their trunk buried in the sand.
The small grass tree from grassy woodlands also grows in the ground as an adaptation to grassland fire.
These grasstrees from Boniong on Bunurong land are survivors of a “controlled burn” which covered 10’s of hectares.
The stunning mass flowering from the survivors is a stress response… but gives the wrong impression.
Many grasstrees die under this type of fire, and some of those that do survive will collapse years later from fire scars weakening the trunk. Hopefully this method of burning will become a thing of the past as Bunurong become more involved in land and fire management.
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