Title:
Sassafras On Myrtle
Medium:
Painting - Pphotographic Computer-enhaned Print
Price
$120.00
Dimensions
30.000 x 22.000 inches
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Description:
I am able to paint on canvas this scene in any size...please contact me for a commission.
On the east side of Mount Murchison, there is a wonderland of old growth Gondwanaland forest trees.The young trees grow on the old trunks of the ancient trees left standing or have fallen over at the end of there life. I discovered once a Myrtle tree approx. 6,000 years old with five generations of Myrtle growing from this one old dead trunk. The third oldest Myrtle in this group was in its full glory reaching the canopy and at it's base two other young trees were growing on its trunk. The damp understory relies on the rain, a necessary ingredient to the survival of this unique rainforest. If it gets clear felled it is predicted that it will take 65,000 years to become a rainforest like what it is today. We cannot plant up a rainforest and see it develop in our live time. Because these forests take so long, I was told that they ate of no use to man at all.This is one of the reason for removing these so called 'useless forests,.This statement was said to me when I tried to convince the forest industry management to save these species as I believe they are the assets of Tasmania. I challenged them to plant up 10% of there land and other devalued sights that were left in bad repair from logging, and grow a forest of these unique species to see if it can survive through the coming centuries. It could be a source of education and stability for our future rainforests so that we can have a reference as an indicator to the future welfare of our plantations. If the Rainforest survives along with all the biodiversity and no weed penetration, no diseases, then the plantations will do well to. These forests need us to keep from disappearing more than we need plantations.
I have finish a oil painting on canvas of this photograph, and the original is for sale.
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