These petroglyph markings have survived over 10,000 years and so have ‘endured’. But in recent times they have sustained damage born of greed and ignorant intolerance, and so have been rendered ‘fragile’.
The safeguard for fragility is respect.
Respect allows endurance.
Part of artist residency project at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston, Tasmania (1996, 1998) and but not 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
1400mm x 1100mm
2000
Photograph: Ian Hobbs
Private collection, Australia
19 October 2000