City Moonrise

The view across Brisbane City, Australia from a park on the highest point within the city. The fruit bats are coming out to feed in the evening as the rainbow lorikeets return to their communal roosts. A hoop pine stands silhouetted, the progeny of the original hoop pines of Brisbane thats lineage has grown here in unbroken succession for over 200 million years. A touch of the wild in a modern day city with the moon reminding us of the unending wildness of the cosmos beyond. Reminding us of how young our species is and how much we have transformed the wild in such a short space of time yet also how brief our dominance on earth may be if we continue to undermine the environment that supports us. In City Moonrise the city itself is a newcomer in the landscape, less than 200 years old, imposed on Australia’s ancient natural and cultural landscape, destroying or marginalising the first nations of the area . The wildlife and the ancient Araucaria tree lineage from the Jurassic depicted have managed to survive the onslaught of western culture, but many species have not. The people in the foreground are like brief flames against the backdrop of of the life of the city and even moreso against the antiquity of Australia’s first cultures and life on earth. Beyond the city, the moon rises, reminding us of deep space and time, that life is short,that we need to be kind to one another, slow down and enjoy the moment.

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