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Bottle tree pod (Balsa wood)

Banksia seed pod (porcelain, copper lustre, brown wax, super sculpey)

Kurrajong pod (clay, brown wax, porcelain, gold lustre)

Flame tree pod, Kurrajong and Australian black bean pods for the Yarra Ranges open studios group exhibition.

SEROTINY :

 "Ecological adaptation exhibited by some seed plants, in which seed release occurs in response to an environmental trigger, rather than spontaneously at seed maturation.  The most common and best studied trigger is fire"

   The potential, the evolution of life, surviving, protected from fire and released into ash fertiliser to grow again.The seed pods are made from Balsa wood, a soft hardwood that I have burnt using an ancient Japanese technique, Shou-sugi-ban, to protect the wood from fire.Type your paragraph here.

Australian Black bean pod (Balsa wood, porcelain, gold lustre)

Kurrajong seed pod (Balsa wood, porcelain seeds, gold lustre)