The Lost World (Track)

These paintings combine the ocular effort with the physical effort of navigating the boulder-field of The Lost World Track on kunanyi/Mt Wellington. From the perspective of my paid work 'track-working' on the Mountain I have come to see the mountain as a place where humans come to walk, ride, and climb high above the suburbs of Hobart, and become 'lost' in an experience of themselves intermingling, and coexisting with 'nature'. Inspired by local and personal experiences the work however paints towards wider philosophical themes of entanglement, and the debate to define 'wilderness'.