Vision Builder Geoff Buchan artist / designer
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3 spiral approach to sustainability

Source To The Sea

Muru Durabin is local Darug language for " path to the river" ( a way to the Hawkesbury River)

a spiral
flow from the
Source to the Sea

designed as a
.................pictorial summary for a
...............................a catchment story
.........................................past/present/future
................................................ lines ................ pattern
perched ancient river bed aquifers....geology learning catchment
trig site high point water source................overlooking Maroota Forest
springs flowing ...............................OPEN...................... past/present/future?

.........................................................or,,...................CLOSED. to..sandmining?
........................................................deleting the "...flow of life..." . . spiraling down to the sea

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Eastbend Painting

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Overview: Little Cattai Creek > Eastbend> Hawkesbury River> flow to the sea

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Three Fauves talking about the future of Maroota Forest

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Flying Fox, Eastbend from multiple perspectives

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Koalas Maroota Forest

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Muru Festival Ground Concept painting

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Exchange on the Hawkesbury River

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Yellow Holes is an Image that was created to picture the "whole of the catchment" story.
On the Maroota Trig Site, the highest point on the plateau, there is a big deposit of tertiary sand where they are mining. The rain soaks into the sand and into an ancient riverbed, which used to run opposite to the Hawkesbury millions of years ago. This becomes an aquifer in which the freshwater is held and released slowly. It runs down into Little Cattai Creek, flows over the waterfall, past the Vale where the artist lives and down into the Broadwater wetlands, - It then spirals around, joins up with the Hawkesbury RIver bends to the east at Wiseman's Ferry and eventually out into the sea. So this is a Source to the Sea cycle, the story of the whole catchment. It's not about the occasional rain falling, its illustrates the unique characteristic of this constant slow release of water and about how life survives in times of drought.

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Water colour of the Maroota waterfall with rock warbler painted at the height of the 1984 drought when my brother Chris visited.

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clock time seeing time

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Recent groundwork
ancient ground.

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Turtles in Little Cattai Creek - dawn day dusk

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