Marram Grass - Fairborne - Drawing

Marram grass – Fairbourne - Drawing – Ink - Paint – on watercolour paper – 29x42cm – Linda Sgoluppi

Blades stand in close clusters, meeting what arrives and drawing it into their hold. At times a fierce force drives through them, tearing across their length, pressing them low and setting them into motion as a single body before they gather and rise again. Sand gathers at their bases and settles, held in place as it accumulates and rises in small shifts.

Each movement is taken in and returned more slowly, the surface lifting and holding as stems remain anchored within it. Light passes across the uneven forms, slipping between upright lines and tracing the subtle growth they make together.

What reaches them is not lost but held, and the shape of the dune is built in the holding.

Linda Sgoluppi Art