Crafted as a lament for the changing of this land, this photograqphic installation imagines the vastness of the original forest.

With a range of primitive wet photographic and printmaking techniques, artist Susan Purdy evokes the memory of an old country. Her work keens for the richness of the lost forests of Gippsland, intensely observing this landscape and reflecting upon its transcience.

Awed by the interdepenence of life and provoked by the fact that, though less than one percent exists today this forest is still being logged, the project makes a lucid argument for retaining remnant bushland. It challenges the history of continuous land clearing in Gippsland, and connects it directly with the pressing issue of global warming.

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Susan Purdy, Detail of "the lost forest" installation, 2008, gelatin silver photograph