Balmy Brisbane in the Autumn

So this is what inner Brissie life looks like on a balmy Sunday morning when I am heading through the bougainvillae path to the Botanical Gardens to catch Botanica - a show of Contemporary Art outside. A city beach complete with sand and pools of varying depths, open and free for all to enjoy. 

The interesting thing to note is the mother wearing shoes but all the kids are barefoot ! 

Not uncommon here but still a complete mystery to me given how health and safety conscious they are. Why would you allow your toddler to go barefoot on tarmac and paths when the outside temperature is 31C??

As I enter the Botanic Garden in the city,  I feel there is energy in each of these plants. By contrast this is one of the rare times where the art work which is supposed to be interwoven with nature has left me cold and not very impressed.Look at the colour of this ginger plant. 

Look at the symmetry of that trunk - you could not measure it more accurately.

 These things in the pond are just messy to the eye and add nothing to those lovely lily pads.

As for these two photos, I hardly need make any comment. Their intensity, their sexuality is all there for the eyes to feast on.

And then we have some interesting additions to a beautiful fig tree, one of the biggest in the park. These were called Trophy Specimen - and the blurb points to the practice of fetishing exotic species whilst suggesting the paradoxical effects of human interference in nature. These were made from recycled plastic and other waste and light up as you approached them. 

There were other art works made from recycled tents and cubes, paper flowers to fill a common and even branches of trees which were activated by your presence and waved back at you to ask the question of how humans and plants would interact. Would we understand one another and take better care of one another? Well at least this one had a message that I could relate to !