Lizard Rock

About this work

Weathered sandstone, split and tilted where the rock has come apart along its bedding, with dry sclerophyll forest grown up around it and the sun coming through the canopy from behind. Sandstone country is poor ground, porous and low in nutrients, and the spare hard-leaved forest that grows on it is the reason Australian bush light looks the way it does: thin, high, and full of gaps.

A resting place in the Australian bush. The rock collapses into the focal zone, sharp and warm, while the surrounding terrain dissolves into the wave state of the natural world, the light you see the whole scene by, held open at the edges.