lichen with grand intentions, on a rock in Broger's Creek, near Kiama
it's quite a question. I was sure that I knew. But now, now that I'm trying to actually shape them, to abstractedly make a 'tree-like' thing (or several), I find that perhaps I didn't know quite enough. I mean, I can make a
tree easily enough that conforms to the basic laws of organic patterning, but my trees need to
flow - to bend in a liquid breeze as if they were in the airy wind.
a sea sponge whose footing-rock got thrown up on the beach at the Boneyard, near Kiama
An underwater forest. Made of terrestrial-like trees, which behave in the ocean current in a way reminiscent of a strong wind in a stand of tall trees.
So not only form is needed here, but solidity and strain and buoyancy and pressure and flow, all together, in the correct amounts. To re-produce nuances of the terrestrial within the land of aqua profunda. Hmmm. Start with form.
more lichen - same patch
sea sponge washed up at The Boneyard - disconnected from it's rock footing
a small stand
pared-back sponge
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