During a recent art residency, I studied the gentle giants and species of trees endemic to Lutruwita -Tasmania. This is an exposed root system of a very rare Gondwanan species of tree called the Pencil Pine. They exist only in Tasmania’s sub-alpine areas and can be found around water as they are intolerant to extreme heat and fires. With its 1,000 years of growth and twisted limbs, I can’t help but wonder what this tree has seen, endured and survived.

Photo taken by Hilary Wardhaugh