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This piece is an etching I made in Nipaluna / Hobart in 2008. I translated it from a photograph I had taken of a Giant Eucalyptus Regnans in the Weld Valley. The trunk was lying on the ground. The piece is named ╳. It was exhibited in and donated to the 2008 Weld Echo exhibition organised by the Black Sassy Artist Collective / Huon Valley Environment Centre at the Long Gallery in Salamanca Place, Nipaluna / Hobart. It is called ╳ because some of the trees I saw were marked with a ╳. Walking around in the Weld Valley, I saw many of the most beautiful and largest trees I have ever seen in my life, some of which were marked with ╳s:

This is a second version of the etching, with the addition of some pigment ink pen. This one is called Eucalyptus Regnans:

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This next image was a surprise discovery from a few years earlier. I had been walking around in the Weld Valley. Most of what I’d been looking at were giant eucalypts and ground cover including naturally fallen logs and a large amount of moss on everything. It was difficult to walk around as there were no paths where I went. It was really surprising to find this little area that seemed to be clear. When I paused there I realised it was some kind of small swampy area. Then I noticed that there were lots of tiny frogs and that I had come to a special undisturbed frog place. I didn’t stay long so as not to disturb the frogs. I took this photograph in 2005: