This artwork speaks to dual aspects of Mt Wellington, Tasmania

On a personal level the massive rock formations and the tenacious vegetation reminded the artist of Alain de Botton’s argument that we seek places that align with desired versions of ourselves and that locations shape our identity, offering refuge, humbling us with nature’s vastness.

The mountain is also believed to possess a sacred indigenous connectionbetween earth and sky and between surviving Palawa and the resting place of ancestors, a threshold crossed by water falling as rain on the mountain before making its way down through the landscape to Timtumuli minanya (Derwent River)

120cm x 30 cm , synthetic polymers on stretched canvas.