Web of Life and Loss

What happens when the last Green Turtle dies?

The last Red Tailed Black Cockatoo?

Spotted Tree Frog?

What do we lose?

I made this paper cut with collage trying to express my own feelings of grief, loss and anxiety about this ecological and extinction crisis we are currently in.

‘Web of Life and Loss’ is a paper cut featuring just ten of the many thousands of Australian native species critically endangered or on the brink of extinction since colonisation.

Clockwise from top:

1. Red Tailed Black Cockatoo

2. Numbat

3. Spotted Tree Frog

4. Gouldian Finch

5. Blue Tailed Skink

6. Red Finned Blue Eyed Fish

7. Greater Bilby

8. Eastern Curlew

9. Arid Bronze Azure Butterfly

10. Green Turtle