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Snake in the Landscape
Collaboration with Aunty Marilyne Nicholls
Aunty Marilyne Nicholls and Forest Keegel set up camp at Vaughan Springs for a week in December 2018 to make Snake in the Landscape. A caring for Country art installation encouraging a healthy river system in the form of a snake curved along the edge of the river bank. Created from a lattice of sticks, tied together with natural fibre string. The sticks formed a sculptural cage over plantings of Basket Grass, Hemarthria uncinata Mat Grass, Lomandra filiformis Wattle Mat-rush, the roots of which will stabilise the eroding bank. Over the course of a week the artists removed weeds from the site, explored the catchment and collected sticks and planted Common Reed and other rhizome plants in the riparian zone to clean and filter the water. People joined them creating the finishing touches to the snake at Dan Mitchells Treechange during Vaughan Springs Family Fun Day