Jane Théau
Trees are eternal victims of electricity generation. They are felled to provide the poles that carry the wires. They are drastically pruned into leafy donuts so as not to impede the business of electron passage along the wires. And they are incinerated in the unfolding catastrophe of the changing climate they are unwittingly (and undoubtedly unwillingly) instrumental in facilitating. Implication (or twice felled) is one of a series of works that developed after the 2020 bushfires that surrounded our house on the South Coast devastating large swathes of Conjola National Park. The power poles that lined the road from the highway to the coast – former mighty trees – were victims of the conflagration, felled for a second time.
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