Totara Graveyard

Tiki sitting on Totara stump lamenting deforestation, painting from Liam Barr
Totara Graveyard

76 X 76cm, Oil on Canvas 2006 

Influenced by the fallen totara forests of Banks Peninsula, the tiki figure laments over the twisted, sculptural, silver giants which once stood to provide a majestic skyline over Port Levy. We imagine the terrain as it must have been and beg the question, why.

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