The GIANT GUMLEAF, Art Work in the Bush, Blue Mountains National Park

Yes we did it! We the people of the little tents the Bushwalkers, made a Giant Gumleaf in the Grose Valley in the Blue Mountains National Park, Australia. This was a giant art work made of 80 mini tents which formed the outline of a gumleaf. It was done to Celebrate the 80th Anniversary of the Conservation of the Blue Gum Forest, This was the first major conservation action in Australia and is often referred to as the beginning of Modern Conservation. The part of the valley where Blue Gum Forest stands is also called the Cradle of Conservation for that reason.

You shall see how this art work was made and conceived by Wyn Jones, Ecologist, Photographer and Poet. You are invited to get behind the use of the gumleaf as a National Symbol of Unity and Community representing our intimate relation to nature and native australian wild things.

I would like to see this art work installed in a city place for some weeks before Christmas 2012.

It can easily be put up and embellished as I shall show you in the following days.

The photo here is the aerial picture I took and is a close up. The work is 50 metres long including the real tent at the “stalk” end of the “leaf”. That tent has been with me since about 1965 and is a Paddy Pallin “Golden Tan” one of Paddy’s famous bushwalking tents.