HOLE

HOLE, 2023, mixed media 1500 x 1000mm                                  The NT Art Prize 2023, Second Prize.                                                           acquired CDU Collection

I made this image to pay my respects and to remember the two strong Milkwood trees that were destroyed in the wake of the proposed new Charles Darwin University city campus. This is the hole dug in preparation for the construction that followed. A metaphor for mooching around feeling sad for old trees cut down in the past, that are being cut down today, and will be cut down in the future.