August 26, 2004
regionalism: Mallee
I was wandering through the Mallee country the other day and walked across a part of that landscape before moving onto the river country along the River Murray.
Garry Duncan, Acres of Blue.
And I listened to some of this music whilst looking at the Mallee Sustainable Farming project.
The history of the Murray Mallee is one of the clearing of the eucalypt woodland and shrubland in this dry area and its replacement by crops and pastures. Little is left. What is left needs protection.
Jeanette's music in Messenger Bird and Gary's paintings are by people who live within the ecology of the region and understand that it is their home. It is their life, they read nature as if it were a book, and they act to protect their natural heritage.
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at August 26, 2004 11:49 PM | TrackBackComments
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