The three b+w pictures below are of a small, scraggly patch of native melaleucas  that were made with an old large format 8×10 Cambo monorail. Any trace of human activity in the patch has been excluded from the pictures. The emphasis is on a series and not on the pictures presented one at a time. The 3 pictures are a fragment of an ongoing bushland project, and though these particular images only grasp the project as an approximation, they bring about a certain kind of reflexivity that presents something about us in presenting themselves as artworks.

The patch of melaleucas and eucalypts is at the base of Rosetta Head in Victor Harbor and it  sits behind a group of holiday apartments — The Bluff Resort Apartments  — that look out over  Encounter Bay towards Granite Island and its causeway.  This patch is part of a  broader  scrubland area around Rosetta Head known as the Bluff Reserve. By and large the patch of straggly  melaleucas and eucalypts is  forgotten, neglected  and uncared for, and it suffers  from the pressures  of rabbits,  kids doing wheelies in their cars or making tracks to ride their  trial bikes, and the increasing  lack of rain during autumn. It is the various birds and  the odd kangaroo and fox that appreciate its existence. Maybe the occasional dog walker.  

This patch of nature  more  or less just hangs on. Hopefully, it will become a little more cared for with the Victor Harbor Council’s  implementation of its long term  The Bluff Master Plan.

This  patch of nature is currently seen  by our subjective gaze as a resource  for our leisure and consumption. Our primary concern is mastery and domination in which we locate ourselves as being at the centre of the world. For instance, the proposed Bluff Master Plan is all about shaping (landscaping) the area for human leisure and enjoyment, and not what would be good for this patch of nature itself.