Everyday Life

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/sasafras-on-myrtle—-sarah-king.html / On the east side of Mount Murchison, there is a Gondwanaland of ancient trees where young trees grow on the old trunks. I discovered a Myrtle with a Sassafras tree growing on the root base that looked like a lady in the tree. The wetness of this forest is the necessary ingredients to the survival of this unique rainforest. If it gets clear felled it is predicted that it will take 65,000 years to become what it is today. We can not plant up a rainforest and see it develop in our life time. I challenged Forest Industries to plant up 15% of there land and grow a forest of these unique species to see if it can survive through the coming centuries. It could be a source of education and stability for our future to have a reference that can become an indicator to the future welfare of our ‘Earth’s bio-diversity’. / http://www.redbubble.com/people/cradlemountain/art/2542369-2-sassafras-on-myrtle / The Sassafras tree is growing on the Myrtle tree. Like most rain-forest trees in Tasmania, they can live off each other without destroying themselves. When a tree falls over or dies, often another one will take up the nutrient and continue to grow in this amazing environment. / I have altered the image only slightly to show my feelings I have for these trees. They are to me (the woman and a girl in the background) me and my daughter Zoe. / I have wanted to animate these two women so that I can make a statement about saving the rain-forest. If you know anyone skilled in doing this, I have a great script to follow and hopefully put it on television. Our rain-forest is being destroyed by forest industries and now, global warming. I see the forest as female, a nurturer of life. This unique Gondwanaland rain-forest is being clear-felled in Tasmania to allow for plantation trees to dominate so that, forest industries can get fat on the money made for newspaper industries and the forest will end up as pulp. / http://www.apstas.com/gondwanatimeline.htm#GONDWANA / http://www.redbubble.com/people/cradlemountain/art/3189822-2-recycled-metal-gates / My gate is designed to show the destruction that is happening to the Tasmanian blue gum, Eucalyptus globulus. The leaves are made out of recycled rusty forty four gallon drums and other mesh metals, showing the skeletal form of the leaf disease that is attacking our native forest in Tasmania. There are two worms, one on the other side of the leaf-gate and one on the handle. This worm, is believe to be the monarch moth, it is eating the leaves leaving just a skeletal pattern of veins leaving the Tasmanian blue gum trees and other native forests, exposed to being attacked at a great rate. The insect pests that thrive in the cloned mono-culture plantation trees, ‘Eucalyptus nitons’ grown for Japanese news papers are infecting the surrounding heritage forests and crown land in local farming areas and all along the river banks. I notice (the Australian ICON), http://www.redbubble.com/people/cradlemountain/art/3073058-5-sweet-wattle-wattle … Tasmania, the Silver Wattles and the Blackwood trees are suffering from gaul, a cancerous deformation takes place and the tree is virally infected and dies before reaching maturity. I am not sure if it is then endemic in the seeds of the tree and passes this disease onto the next generation but near the Forth falls, on Crown land, the forest is 80% infected, http://www.redbubble.com/people/cradlemountain/art/2009343-2-forth-falls-wilmot-lake-barrington-2008 ….here above the falls, the Peppermint gum is dying and in turn the Native Cherry tree also dies as a symbiotic relationship takes place for them to thrive. The Native Cherry tree was the source of vitame C for the indiginous people here in Tasmania. It grows on the root of mainly the Peppermint gum tree. / I like to be inspired by the native forest plants and design gates and paterns for clothing and surrounding three D décor for homes and work places. Using my glass, I capture the spirit of the forest and like to create architectural works for public places. * / You can see the plantation trees in the distance. They are taking over the Tasmanian landscape, causing blue green algea in the waters downstream from herb-aside and fertilizer spray. Forest Industries are responsible for the degridation of Tasmanian forest diversity and river systems. The Tasmanian Government has spent millions of dollars to get the contract for the pulp but has not yet found anyone to fund the ‘pulp mill’ which is situated at Beauty point, on the Tamar River. / Please write to the Tasmanian Government and stop this Gondwanaland destruction. / http://www.redbubble.com/people/cradlemountain/art/2439282-2-visiting-the-big-tree-at-dip-falls / The ‘Big Tree’ is at Dip Falls Tasmania. I visited this tree knowing that it is one of a few old large trees left in Tasmania. Not able to hug the tree, I climbed into it’s arms and imagined the world over the time of its life, here in the north-west of Tasmania. Approximately 800 years old, this ancient tree gentle stands here giving quality of life to many animals, birds, insects, algae, raptures, humans and provides oxygen and is the best carbon holding living plant on earth. / Please save these trees and respect old and ancient plant life. These are the homes to many living creatures who have the right to live in and on this tree for centuries before we came along and illuminated many of it’s forest species in a mere 200 years. / This amazing Eucalyptus Viminalis sits on the hill behind my home. I often visit this tree stump and remember the times that I had when a young girl sitting on the shoulders of my uncle walking through a tall eucalyptus forest, and smelling the leaves when they wiped across my head. Sadly today 50 years later, that forest is gone forever. Now where I live, every day log trucks rumble past my front door shaking my house. The heartache I suffer from seeing these trees go by cannot be expressed. I can imagine how indigenous forest dwellers feel when they see there place of living, there home, being clear felled. / http://www.redbubble.com/people/cradlemountain/art/2015456-3-big-old-tree-stump-eucalyptus-tree-tasmania / This amazing Eucalyptus Viminalis sits on the hill behind my home. I often visit this tree stump and remember the times that I had when a young girl sitting on the shoulders of my uncle walking through a tall eucalyptus forest, and smelling the leaves when they wiped across my head. Sadly today 50 years later, that forest is gone forever. Now where I live, every day log trucks rumble past my front door shaking my house. The heartache I suffer from seeing these trees go by cannot be expressed. I can imagine how indigenous forest dwellers feel when they see there place of living, there home, being clear felled. / http://www.redbubble.com/people/cradlemountain/art/1914292-2-zoe-and-the-ancient-remnant-eucalyptus-viminalis / Stop! Please write to the Australian Government and tell them…. / It must stop now. This is violating the rights of the children and all life of the future. Tipping the balance of biodiversity causes unrepairable problems such as blue green algae, water pollution and down stream devastation. They have not got it right. The only way we can save our earthly havens is to stop now and plan ahead, down size and think globally ac locally. Be sustainable in your own countries for all life forms. We cannot ruin this unique environment for newspapers in Japan. Tasmania is not a factory for the world news which becomes yesterday’s old news and waste. / Please contact me for original oil painting price. / Commissions me for paintings of your favourite place or portraits in your favourite place can be arranged as a professional photograph, painting, sculpture or glass art work for your home. Please look at my Glass Gallery …http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/cradlemountain.html