Pamamaroo Lake – Dead Trees

Late afternoon at Pamamaroo Lake put the sun low in the western sky with a great light on the dead trees, river redgums, of the dry lake bed.

The outer limits of the lake were once populated by thriving river redgums, perpetuated by the natural cycle of flood and dry, but now they’re all dead, the result of the augmentation of the water levels for storage purposes.

From an artist’s viewpoint, the immediate landscape is composed of the simple colour palette of blue and brown and of the contorted form and imagary of many a stark and imposing relec of times past.

A monochrome presentation of these forms would, no doubt, portray the forms with added power.