In the embedded rock and quartz seam, the line of lichen growth and shifted sand, this stone is telling its history down through geological time.
Part of the artist residency program 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, free hanging
1600mm x 500mm
1999
Photograph: Ian Hobbs
Private collection, Australia
19 October 1999