Tree Mother Drawings
For the month of November, 2020, MacLeod was Artist in Residence at the Arts and Ecology Centre at the Maroochy Bushland Botanical Gardens. Each day she would walk to the bleeding Bloodwood trees, sit with them, gather their oozing sap and then grind it into a pigment. MacLeod would then draw and paint with the Bloodwood sap. This was a process of re-connecting, listening and remembering.
Dialogue with a bleeding Bloodwood tree: Listen to the tree, sit beneath her, speak with her, hear how she responds. Tree mother.
#tree embodiment #bloodwood tree #language of trees #earth poem #sap works
Tree Mother - I | Bloodwood Tree Sap and Copper Oxide Ink | 84.1 x 118.9 cm | Gubbi Gubbi Country | 2020. (SOLD)
Moss Envelopment - I | Bloodwood Tree Sap & Copper Oxide Ink | 29.7 x 42cm | Gubbi Gubbi Country | 2020. (SOLD)
Moss Envelopment - II | Bloodwood Tree Sap and Copper Oxide Ink | 29.7 x 42cm | Gubbi Gubbi Country | 2020. (SOLD)
I pay my deepest respect to the Traditional Custodians of the Country from which these artworks have been created: the Kabi Kabi/ Gubbi Gubbi and Jinibara peoples of the Sunshine Coast. To all First Nations elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.