- Title: Ironwood Leaf
- Artist: Peter Eve
- Region: Darwin
- Art Centre: Independent artist
- Medium: Digital photograph
- Collection: Peter Eve Replant Collection
- Dimensions: 32.5 x 21.5
- Edition Size:
- Price ($AUD): $ 220.00
Artwork Story
Replant took place at Daly River in April around the height of the wet season. Each day the artists spent time sauntering along bush tracks or on hands and knees in the scrub unabated by the passing storms. The rising floodwaters of the Daly were foremost in our minds as were the intrinsic and fluid links between seasons, plants, people and country.
As resident photographer my job was to observe and record. I watched the artists in the field, watching nature. The more I observed, the more I tuned into the complex surroundings with them. Microscopic detail, recurrence of systems, the surging floodwaters and the ingenuity of nature became my preoccupation. The abundance of water conveyed a multitude of ideas, created subject matter and filtered a gentle light. The contrasting energies of procreation and decomposition were everywhere. My images capture the confluence and spirit of an environment during a time of natural profusion and transformation.
Peter Eve 2006