Like leviathans launching out to sea, these giant granite boulders with their vivid red covering of lichen, stand like frozen monuments.
Part of the artist residency project at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston, Tasmania (1996, 1998) and exhibited in resulting solo exhibition, Fragility & Endurance, at the Gallery in December 2000 — February 2001.
Acrylic pigment on silk, wool filled, hand stitched, mounted & framed
1160mm x 600mm
2000
Photograph: Ian Hobbs
Private collection, Australia
19 June 2000