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- [26th February 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/26th-february-2021/) - A new wildflower bloom that has appeared since the fires are the purple fanflowers Scaevola ramosissima
- [25th February 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/25th-february-2021/) - The yellow-winged grasshoppers flit amongst the summer grasses Gastrimargus musicus
- [24th February 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/24th-february-2021/) - Spider webs adorn the tops of the dead tree canopy
- [12th February 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/12th-february-2021/) - Bright caterpillar on the regenerating hairpin banksia
- [11th February 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/11th-february-2021/) - The curly wig sedge has started to return Caustis flexuosa
- [19th February 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/19-february-2021/) - Peron's tree frog Litoria peronii also known as the emerald-speckled tree frog and the laughing tree frog This little one is in the process of stealthily burying itself under leaf litter for the day.
- [30th October 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/30th-october-2020/) - Female satin bowerbird. Affectionately known as meow-bird. Bowerbirds are mimics and meow-bird has a cat in her range. The male satin bowerbird often gets all the attention because of its deep blue/black lustrous sheen. And its bower making talents. However, I think the females are just as beautiful. A few weeks ago we discovered meow-bird
- [21st February 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/21st-february-2021/) - Feather remains of a female or juvenile Australian king parrot. This is one of two neat circular piles next to each other found between a tree and shrub line. The feathers are neat and not broken and there are no bird remains. This suggests a raptor. Probably a sparrowhawk or a goshawk.
- [13th February 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/13th-february-2021/) - Morning mist through a giant orb weaver web
- [10th February](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/10th-february/) - The first honey flower since the fire. Lambertia formosa This beautiful shrub has regenerated from its lignotuber. Other places on the land where the fire burnt severe there has been no regrowth from these incredibly fire hardy plants.
- [5th February 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/5th-february-2021/) - The summer rain has meant a lot more fungi sporebodies appearing. This one is larger than my hand and emerging from below a burnt and collapsed silvertop ash.
- [4th February 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/4th-february-2021/) - Native Australian brown millipede. This time last year we were inundated with black portuguese millipedes as they looked for food and shelter after the fire. This year we have had far less wander inside in the evenings while observing quite a few more native millipedes.
- [1st February 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/1st-february-2021/) - Hairy Mary or Anthea varia caterpillar around 9cm long. Feeding on red bloodwood leaves
- [30th January 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/30th-january-2021/) - Orb-weaver habits. Daytime rest spots. Bloodroot seedhead Haemodorum planifolium
- [20th January 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/20th-january-2021-5/) - Orb-weaver habits daytime rest spots
- [20th January 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/20th-january-2021-4/) - Sugar ant chimney with acacia seedling Camponotus intrepidus
- [20th January 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/20th-january-2021-3/) - Snack time. Caught this beauty concentrating on their lunch (possibly another spider) on the flaky burnt bark of a broad leaf geebung
- [20th January 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/20th-january-2021-2/) - Early this morning I opened the blinds to see three of the eastern grey kangaroos that have been around this past few months relaxing in the drive. While the younger joey suckled the young male casually grazed and had a scratch. It is good to see them relaxed.
- [20th January 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/20th-january-2021/) - These gorgeous small jewel spiders are presently abundant. Austracantha minax are another member of the orb-weaver spiders. This is the underside, the top part of the abdomen has larger white spots.
- [19th January 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/19th-january-2021/) - Crimson rosella and juvenile January had been noisy with the insistent calls of all the new crimson and eastern rosella juveniles.
- [15th January 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/15th-january-2021/) - Banded-leg huntsman These spiders have gorgeous markings. There have been fewer around this year after the fire. Unfortunately many such huntsmen that hide in crevices and under tree bark during the day would have been consumed by the fire
- [11th January 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/11th-january-2021/) - Orb weaver spider with stout bamboo grass awn.
- [11th January 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/11th-january-2020-3/) - Hoverfly or flowerfly
- [10th January 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/10th-january-2021-4/) - Yellow-faced honeyeater There were many resident groups of these honeyeaters before the fire. Since then there are only a few. It is slim pickings until the return of substantial shrub and tree regrowth.
- [10th January 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/10th-january-2021-3/) - Rusty velvet bush glistening with morning dew.
- [10th January 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/10th-january-2021-2/) - Small cicada on the tip of a wooden clothes peg Possibly a Spotted Wattle Cicada Galanga labeculata
- [10th January 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/10th-january-2021/) - Brown wolf spider waiting at the edge of their burrow.
- [9th January 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/9th-january-2021-2/) - the delicate seed heads of native love grass
- [9th January 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/9th-january-2021/) - Eucalyptus leaf beetle
- [8th January 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/8th-january-2021-4/) - Leucocoprinus birnbaumii sometimes known as the flowerpot parasol
- [8th January 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/8th-january-2021-3/) - Spotted under a twiggy myrtle a cluster of painted-button quail eggs. Unfortunately there was no little quail incubating the eggs so they were not to hatch.
- [8th January 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/8th-january-2021-2/) - The much smaller and more delicate Poranthera ericifolia
- [8th January 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/8th-january-2021/) - Poranthera corymbosa The white flowering carpet of clustered poranthera is coming to an end. The pink fruit pods however are exquisite.
- [7th January 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/7th-january-2021-2/) - Crested pigeons are becoming regular visitors since spring initiated the vigorous growth of diverse native grasses
- [7th January 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/7th-january-2021/) - Cicada love and in abundance this summer. Commonly known as a Yellow Monday being the yellow form of the Green Grocer Cyclochila australasiae
- [6th January 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/6th-january-2021/) - Kangaroos passing through. Seeing this little mob around more frequently in the last month
- [5th January 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/5th-january-2021/) - A forest floor of acacias, sedge, and moss. Transformations one year on and supported by consistent rain.
- [1st January 2021](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/1st-january-2021/) - Our house and our home one year on. The same angle as the first post on the first day of January 2020.
- [31st December 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/31st-december-2020/) - Dragonfly beauty So many lessons learnt this year Slow observations, quiet listening, and curious wonder. Growing together.
- [29th December 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/29th-december-2020/) - Broom milkwort Comesperma sphaerocarpum Another tiny delicate wildflower peeping through the regrowth
- [27th December 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/27th-december-2020/) - Dolly ants Creative forms Infinity
- [24th December 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/24th-december-2020/) - Golden dolly ants farming red-eyed leaf hoppers for delicious honey-dew on a grey gum sapling.
- [22nd December 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/22nd-december-2020/) - I am a little enamoured of wolf spiders and have been so pleased to see multiple species in healthy numbers returning to the bush floor. Last year before the fire I had staked out multiple burrow observation sites documenting their ways.
- [19th December 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/19th-december-2020/) - A Bleating frog knows a good amplifier, deafening sounds from the metal watering can. A year ago today I evacuated our home as fire approached. Tears streaming down my face I sent out safe wishes to all the critters large and small. Bleating frogs were one such critter. We had three in our water tanks
- [21st December 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/21st-december-2020/) - A year ago today the lurking fire hurtled toward our home having missed it two days previous. A year today and the days could not be more different. A year ago it was 40 degrees celsius, hot and dry with unpredictable winds ensuring the fire swept up, through and back around again. Today is cold,
- [17th December 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/17th-december-2020/) - Square tailed kite cruising the thermals and causing a ruckus in its wake. Hot on its tail a currawong voicing it's alarm call, joined by wattlebirds while a sulphur crested cockatoo screeches from its lookout. Too many young fledglings around in all shapes and sizes to allow this bird a quiet passing.
- [16th December 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/16th-december-2020/) - Robber fly Seeing a number of these large 4cm flies also known as the Assassin fly. Other insects make up their main prey which makes this a good sign a healthy invertebrate population is reestablishing. This time last year the air was dry and thick with smoke while the sky was thundering with helicopters and water
- [15th December 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/15th-december-2020/) - Crimson rosella fledgling. This one spent a few days at ground level being fed by the parents until it was able to fly. Daily we hear the incessant calls of various young ones waiting for food deliveries
- [6th December 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/6th-december-2020/) - Crinkle bush flower spike. Lomatia silaifolia Crinkle bush started emerging within a few months after the fire. Now these rounded shrubs are treating us with hundreds of flower spikes throughout the bush.
- [3rd December 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/3rd-december-2020/) - The bees love the flowering native grasses. Look at this little ones laden yellow pollen pants. Native grass meadow.
- [2nd December 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/2nd-december-2020/) - The cicadas have been making themselves known this Spring. There seems to be a much higher emergence than this time last year. Large, small, green, brown, black and variations inbetween. They haul themselves up grass stems, shrub remains, blackened trees, herb foliage, and door frames. They have been also been bird snacks while their remaining
- [30th November 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/30th-november-2020/) - Gang-gang cockatoo pair in a regenerating Stringy bark. Male upper left and female lower right. Return visit. I associate these birds and their creaky calls and murmurs with this place. It was devastating to see their food shrubs and trees disappear in the fire. It will be some years before they will be able to
- [27th November 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/27th-november-2020/) - Crimson rosella emerging from their nest hollow about seven metres up. So happy to see this! I could hear the chicks and it took a while to locate the source to this hollow in a burnt Silver Top Ash. This eucalypt will not recover from the fire but it will live on as a structure
- [26th November 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/26th-november-2020/) - Early morning marking a year since the Green Wattle Creek Fire first appeared as a blip on the Fires Near Me App. The way things had been going down the east of Australia I had been expecting this. I had a bad feeling about this one right from the start and my anxiety level went
- [25th November 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/25th-november-2020/) - Eastern rosella in the branches of a dead fringe-wattle. We keep many of the burnt/dead shrubs and trees because (amongst other things) they are important landing sites for the birds to rest and safely survey the ground. The long flowering native grasses are currently providing a lot of good foraging stock for the crimson and
- [23rd November 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/23rd-november-2020/) - Wombat update There is a joey in the pouch! You can see the bulge toward the back. The still photo trailcam sequence revealed a little nose peeking out a few seconds later. Blurry but there. The date is the 10th November (The trailcam uses US date convention).
- [21st November 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/21st-november-2020/) - One of my favourite lomandras. The many-flowered mat-rush have been repopulating the forest floor. Lomandra multiflora subs. multiflora
- [20th November 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/20th-november-2020/) - The forest floor is amass with these endemic beauties Poranthera corymbosa They germinated sometime in Autumn but it was not until they started flowering at the end of winter that I could identify them
- [17th November 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/17th-november-2020/) - Another beautiful orb-weaver Day nestled in the soft new growth of a hairpin banksia
- [15th November 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/15th-november-2020/) - Flashback 30th December 2019, ten days after the fire. Seeing this little echidna snuffling around, disturbing ants, and having treats was such a high point. This is one of the images I contributed to Photovoice: Renewal and Resilience, an exhibition of photos taken by people impacted by the fires in our local council area. There
- [13th November 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/13th-november-2020/) - Sunset clouds Fire tree
- [8th November 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/7th-november-2020/) - Eucalyptus beetle on a bloodwood leaf. Been finding many glittering little critters in the folds and crevices of new growth.
- [8th January 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/8th-january-2020/) - Textures Large fallen tree remains
- [3rd January 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/3rd-january-2020/) - A gentle early dawn shower. So gentle and brief we did not hear it. Enough to excite some remnant moss amidst the charred and shedding eucalyptus leaves. So nice to see some green.
- [2nd January 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/2nd-january-2020/) - Future home #1 We share this place. What remains must be seen with careful eyes. Some charred trees will be the beginnings of future homes for microbats and possums. Some offer potential for bird nesting hollows
- [1st January 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/1st-january-2020/) - New Year. New Beginnings The understory is gone. Before the fire you would not have seen the house from this perspective. There is a possibility of losing more trees if there is no rain in the near future. In the meantime we will do what we can to prevent erosion and support the ground for
- [6th November 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/6th-november-2020/) - Wallaby grass. Loving the native grasses. Letting our grass meadow grow. Building the seed bank. So important in this first year after fire.
- [5th November 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/5th-november-2020/) - Rare white Lobelia dentata. These commonly purple wild flowers have been covering the bush floor for months now.
- [4th November 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/4th-november-2020/) - Tiny orb-weaver spiders are everywhere. Different patterns and colours. Making use of tall grasses, sedges, and burnt shrub scaffolds. I found this jewel day-camouflaged in the folds of a Haemodorum planifolium flower.
- [3rd November 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/3rd-november-2020/) - Red wattle bird feeding on a flowering grasstree spike. There are two species of grasstree here. The larger ones that survived the fire on the slope flowered over winter. Now it is the smaller ones turn. Probably Xanthorrhoea concava
- [1st November 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/1st-november-2020/) - Flannel flower Actinotus helianthi. The first bloom. A small patch of flannel flower seedlings started emerging back in July. We have not seen them here before so it is really exciting watching them slowly unfurl.
- [29th October 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/29th-october-2020/) - Copper beard orchid Calochilus campestris. Over the last month these little natives have been delighting me.
- [28th October 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/28th-october-2020/) - Eastern grey kangaroo visit. Spotted early evening while working at my desk. Two adults and one juvenile. Grazed in the meadow. First time I have spotted kangaroos here. Passing through.
- [13th October 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/13th-october-2020/) - Apple berry Billiadiera scandens. New shoots and seedlings are often hard to identify until they produce a recognisable feature. The small pale green flower was the give away. Apple berry twined itself throughout this bush before the fire. It is a bush tucker food for humans and non-humans alike. Happy to see it returning.
- [25th September 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/25th-september-2020/) - The kookaburras have been dining well. Crayfish claw and gastroliths. Retrieved from pellets beneath a favourite kookaburra perch. Gastroliths are calcium stores formed by freshwater crayfish before they molt. They enable the calcification of the new exoskeleton.
- [23rd September 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/23rd-september-2020/) - Spotted sun orchid Thelymitra ixiodes. Everyday I am finding a new wild orchid. Regenerating treasures.
- [22nd September 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/22nd-september-2020/) - Charcoal camouflage. More hidden critters.
- [20th September 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/20th-september-2020/) - Tree frogs have been filling the spring nights with their bleatings, cackles, and calls. Such a good sign. Spotted this little one on the verandah last night. Taking advantage of the light seeping from our windows attracting insects. Evening meals. Probably a Perons tree frog.
- [17th September 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/17th-september-2020/) - Early morning cranefly. Freshly emerged from its pupa. Long-legged orange and black beauty.
- [13th September 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/13th-september-2020/) - Charcoal tree mimic. Disturbed this little critter while removing some blackened dead hakeas. Safely deposited onto another charcoal canvas. Camouflage talents of orb-weaver spiders.
- [12th September 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/12th-september-2020/) - Nine months on flipping rocks. Still finding ash stencils. Accompanied by acacia seedlings.
- [10th September 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/10th-september-2020/) - Evening silhouette. Our little miracle house amidst the regenerating trees. Nine months on and still feeling lucky. Daily pleasure and gratitude. Working with the critters, creatures, plants, fungi and land.
- [9th September 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/9th-september-2020-2/) - Wattle mat-rush detail
- [9th September 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/9th-september-2020/) - Lomandra blooming. Every day a new surprise. Wattle mat-rush Lomandra filiformis.
- [4th September 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/4th-september-2020/) - Tiny tree frog sheltering under bark of a collapsed tree. Lucky spotting. Left in place.
- [27th August 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/27th-august-2020/) - More wild sweet blooms. Daisy goodenia Goodenia bellidifolia subsp. bellidifolia
- [23rd August 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/23rd-august-2020/) - Rainbow reward after a freezing day working in crazy winds.
- [19th August 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/19th-august-2020/) - First tiny native orchids in bloom. Leopard doubletail Diuris pardina. Also known as donkey orchids.
- [14th August 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/14th-august-2020/) - Hardenbergia violacea Bush floor seeders. Two months after the fire this gorgeous ground cover was one of the first to sprout thoughout the bush. Now it is flowering. In June I posted a nursery bought Hardenbergia in bloom.
- [10th August 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/10th-august-2020/) - 47mm in 24 hours. The feeder stream has a rare flow going on.
- [3rd August 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/3rd-august-2020/) - Satin bowerbird bower. Ready for entertaining. Hidden corner in a neighbours garden. A carefully laid carpet of long grass stems strewn with blue objects. Blue crimson rosella tail feathers, blue pegs, blue bottle caps.
- [30th July 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/30th-july-2020/) - Accidentally disturbed this little beauty hiding under the bark of a burnt fallen tree bough. Crucial habitats in all shapes and sizes.
- [28th July 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/28th-july-2020/) - Found this delicate bush beauty. Lobelia dentata. Tend to be more conspicuous after fire.
- [26th July 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/26th-july-2020/) - Wombat update. And then there was two. Night cam.
- [23rd July 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/23rd-july-2020/) - Tree erotics. Red Bloodwood Corymbia Gummifera
- [19th July 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/19th-july-2020/) - The gorgeous colours of new growth. Narrow-leaved drumstick Isopogon anethifolius Regenerating from the lignotuber. Native to NSW and found from coastal Sydney to immediate west.
- [14th July 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/14th-july-2020/) - Flaky barked tea-tree Leptospermum tinervium Before the fire the bush was thick with these shrubs along with hakeas, wattles, mountain devil and geebungs. It was prickly work to go off track. Now only the hardest wood remains revealing beautiful arcing structures. This is a large shrub and probably quite old.
- [11th July 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/11th-july-2020/) - Moss - not grass. Dew covered in early morning light. The sporophytes rise above the moss mat giving it a grass like resemblance.
- [9th July 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/9th-july-2020/) - It has been a three wheelbarrow operation here. (thanks to wheelbarrow patrons) This red trio have been star performers since I took this photo in early February. Treading lightly, physical grunt, avoiding heavy machinery on sensitive regenerating land.
- [7th July 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/7th-july-2020/) - Wombat update. Night meanderings near wombat palace. Our first view of the resident captured on the trailcam in the wee hours of the morning.
- [5th July 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/5th-july-2020/) - A red and black spider of the Nicodamidae genus. Scampers across the gorgeous terrain of a grey gum trunk. These spiders are less than 1cm. Rich red and blue/black tiny jewels.
- [26th June 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/26th-june-2020/) - This is the same view six months on from the first image posted on the 1st January 2020. The green is creeping back on the ground, even though the canopy is still pretty bare. Before the fire the house was hidden from this vantage point by the understory.
- [25th June 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/25th-june-2020/) - Winter moss mats and charcoal. Small patched flourishing.
- [22nd June 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/22nd-june-2020/) - This wee fungi looks like it is wearing a moss-rimmed hat.
- [21st June 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/21st-june-2020/) - Winter Solstice. Turning of the year. Sharing the blessings and welcoming the new. Six months since the Summer Solstice wildfire. Photo: Diane Busuttil
- [13th June 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/13th-june-2020/) - Hardenbergia blooms. Planted in March and threaded through a repurposed forged 1.7 metre candelabra, bent and reshaped by the bushfire. False sarsparilla Hardenbergia violacea is endemic to the bush here. The regenerating bush floor is also covered with it.
- [10th June 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/10th-june-2020/) - Charcoal tree aperture. View through. Daily walk.
- [4th June 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/4th-june-2020/) - Shadow morph. Careful observations. Acacia seedlings. Quiet listening. Transferable knowledge. How you see the world matters. How you participate in the world matters.
- [2nd June 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/2nd-june-2020/) - Spore dust imprints surround mushroom sporebodies.
- [31st May 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/31st-may-2020/) - Early morning walk. While many of the trees have not survived the grass trees are thriving and flowering. This grass tree was burnt to a stubble. You can see the pale fringes at the end of the leaves. The green is regrowth over the past five months along with the scape and flowering spike. I
- [27th May 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/27th-may-2020/) - Wombat update. The old termite mound fit for a wombat. I have checked it over the last three days and there is definitely some serious earth moving going on. Chamber and antechamber. Recycle homes. So ecstatic!
- [26th May 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/26th-may-2020/) - Wombat scats plus significant earth moving. Hoping we have a new resident.
- [23rd May 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/23rd-may-2020/) - This little herb is doing some heavy lifting. One of the only blooms presently for bees and insects. Filling in the regeneration gap. Groundcover, fireweed, will cull later.
- [22nd May 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/22nd-may-2020/) - Walking village back roads. Spiral burn scar. Fire textures.
- [9th May 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/9th-may-2020/) - Banksia seed pods are kind of sexy and strangely land aquatic.
- [7th May 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/7th-may-2020/) - Swamp wallaby visitor. Tracking the tracks. Dark business.
- [28th April 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/28th-april-2020/) - Spider home. Doing it in style under a red glass heart. Moved in weeks ago and seems to enjoy the rose-coloured view. Flat spider of genus Hemicloea
- [24th April 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/24th-april-2020/) - A quiet moment at the end of the day. A microbat flits through the tangled tree branches against a soft sky. Less than fifty percent of the trees are sending out epicormic growth from their trunks and branches. Some send up shoots from the base and the rest will eventually become habitats or fall.
- [20th April 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/20th-april-2020-3/) - Germinating heath wattle Acacia brownii First phase regeneration.
- [20th April 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/20th-april-2020-2/) - Germinating sunshine wattle Acacia terminalis First phase regeneration.
- [20th April 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/20th-april-2020/) - Germinating white wattle Acacia linifolia First phase regeneration. Bush got the smarts.
- [17th April 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/17th-april-2020/) - Crimson larvae. The little things. Moving stones.
- [14th April 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/14th-april-2020/) - Australian king parrot. Quiet feedtime. I generally do not feed wild birds but the occasional supplement post fire until steady food sources return is helpful.
- [13th April 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/13th-april-2020/) - Turtle rescue, road crossing. Eastern long-necked turtle. Dam release.
- [12th April 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/12th-april-2020/) - Evening pools.
- [11th April 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/11th-april-2020/) - Coral fungus
- [7th April 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/7th-april-2020/) - Last shed cleared this morning. Reimagining new workspaces.
- [5th April 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/5th-april-2020/) - Brilliant jewel amidst the sandstone. Red velvet spider mite.
- [2nd April 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/2nd-april-2020-2/) - Not flowers #2 Delicate fungi sporebodies.
- [2nd April 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/2nd-april-2020/) - Not flowers #1 Delicate fungi sporebodies
- [29th March 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/29th-march-2020/) - Disturbed a centipede while digging. Finding new cover.
- [28th March 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/28th-march-2020/) - Rubble remains. Removal date approaches.
- [27th March 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/27th-march-2020/) - Still finding remnants in the rubble of the storage space. Costuming bits and pieces.
- [26th March 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/26th-march-2020/) - North migration. 150+ yellow-faced honeyeaters passed through the bare treetops yesterday en-route to winter over in southern Queensland. Image: a resident yellow-faced honeyeater bathes last year before the fire.
- [23rd March 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/23rd-march-2020/) - Underneath. Fungi hyphae with millipede.
- [17th March 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/17th-march-2020/) - At last! Been waiting with bated breath. Geebung (Dharug language) Persoonia Levis. Drupes (fruits) and flowers are food for possums, wallabies, kangaroos, currawongs, and long-tongued bees amongst others. Love these trees. They can live for up to sixty years. Twelve weeks today.
- [13th March 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/13th-march-2020/) - Risky behaviour. Outside the burrow. Camouflage. Wolfspider new generation.
- [11th March 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/11th-march-2020/) - Scribbly gum textures. New shoots in its own time. Knows best.
- [9th March 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/9th-march-2020/) - First wild flowers. Thysanotus tuberosus Common fringe lily. One day only. Keep your eyes open.
- [8th March 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/8th-march-2020/) - The slow outer bark shed. Eucalyptus schlerophylla Scribbly gum. New shoots to follow.
- [5th March 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/5th-march-2020/) - Fallen tree. Rain falls. Bark tenderly slips. Reveals larvae tracks. Life art collaborations
- [26th February 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/26th-february-2020/) - Early morning sunrise. Tree silhouette and regrowth.
- [23rd February 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/23rd-february-2020/) - Burnt tree clean up day. Wear gloves. White-tail spider lurking under bark. Don't want a bite from this spider.
- [20th February 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/20th-february-2020/) - Arboreal blood. Red bloodwood. Corymbia gummifera. Seedpods are a favourite of the Gang-gang cockatoo - my bird crush.
- [19th February 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/19th-february-2020/) - Morning dew jewel. Feather drift.
- [18th February 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/18th-february-2020/) - Banksia spinulosa unfurling from the lignotuber
- [15th February 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/15th-february-2020/) - Eight weeks. Germinating seeds. Treading lightly. Observing keenly.
- [13th February 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/13th-february-2020/) - Bush floor still life. Chrysalis. Rock. Hakea.
- [12th February 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/12th-february-2020/) - Never seen this creek feeder stream flowing before
- [10th February 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/10th-february-2020/) - Flipped stone. Ash stencil.
- [9th February 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/9th-february-2020/) - Goodbye mud hut. The roof crumpled but the walls held fast during the fire. Withstood the pressure-hose of hazmat cleaning. But this current deluge is its undoing. Two walls crumbled in the last twelve hours and we expect more to follow. We will recycle and it will live on in other forms.
- [8th February 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/8th-february-2020/) - Burnt out grey gum rest stop for dragonfly
- [6th February 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/6th-february-2020/) - Regeneration erotics.
- [5th February 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/5th-february-2020/) - After the clean-up. Concrete slab of the once workshed with curious mountain dragon.
- [3rd February 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/3rd-february-2020/) - New growth with dolly ant. Eucalyptus punctata or grey gum. A favourite of grey-headed flying foxes, koalas, honeyeaters, and me. So happy to see even the the most scorched of these trees finally sending out new growth.
- [2nd February 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/2nd-february-2020-3/) - Now we are surrounded by wading pools.
- [2nd February 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/2nd-february-2020-2/) - Heavy rain submerging rock gardens.
- [2nd February 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/2nd-february-2020/) - The deluge.
- [1st February 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/1st-february-2020/) - Amazing angular structure. Trees seeking light. Shapes revealed post-fire. Red bloodwood.
- [30th January 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/30th-january-2020/) - Recognisable domestic objects.
- [28th January 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/28th-january-2020/) - Banded-leg huntsman spider found day-hanging in a pot. The spread of its legs would fit over the palm of my hand.
- [27th January 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/27th-january-2020/) - Managing fallen burnt trees while leaving great habitats and future homes.
- [25th January 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/25th-january-2020/) - Colourful business amidst the ash. The blue ant is actually a solitary parasitic wasp.
- [24th January 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/24th-january-2020/) - Fungal feeding. Nutrient recycling. Orange, white, and pink carpets.
- [22nd January 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/22nd-january-2020/) - Hanging on.
- [21st January 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/21st-january-2020/) - Water pools. After the rain.
- [20th January 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/20th-january-2020/) - This is one of the first photos I took on the first afternoon we were able to get back to our home and survey the damage. Two days after the fire. Two days before Christmas. Four weeks today. Feels like the other week.
- [19th January 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/19th-january-2020/) - Burn shadows. This happens when there is total combustion.
- [18th January 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/18th-january-2020/) - Future home #2 I know my photos seem monochrome. Know this is not an exaggeration. Four weeks today.
- [17th January 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/17th-january-2020/) - Now the rain has come I can grieve
- [16th January 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/16th-january-2020/) - Exposed termite chambers. Once hidden inside the core of a stringybark.
- [15th January 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/15th-january-2020/) - Awoke early to a fresh dewy fog. I had to sniff the air repeatedly and walk in it to convince myself it was not the smoke fog I had become used to.
- [14th January 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/14th-january-2020/) - Three weeks after the fire. Little red shoots popping up around the base of burnt Corymbia gummifera (red bloodwood) saplings.
- [11th January 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/11th-january-2020-2/) - Handsome wolfspider. The bush may be burnt but it is very much alive.
- [11th January 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/11th-january-2020/) - Textures. Once laptops.
- [10th January 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/10th-january-2020/) - Textures. Storage shed remains.
- [8th January 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/8th-january-2020-2/) - Two and a half weeks after the fire ripped through we still have to be vigilant. We do regular checks. Found this little beauty this afternoon happily burning away. It was around one hundred metres from our house. Tree roots can slowly smoulder for weeks then the right conditions will ignite them. I have walked
- [6th January 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/6th-january-2020/) - Not Autumn. You might be forgiven for mistaking this image for a Northern Hemisphere Autumn. Two weeks after the fire the eucalyptus trees start to shed their crackly crispy leaves - those few that still have them. When the wind picks up it sounds like rain.
- [5th January 2020](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire/5th-january-2020/) - What a joy. A survivor! After the southerly last night all the radiated and dry leaves still remaining on some of the burnt eucalyptus trees started falling like rain. Gutter cleaning was required. What a surprise to disturb a tiny ringtail possum nestled in under the leaves. After the initial disturbance I moved away and

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- [About](https://julievulcan.net/about/) - Julie Vulcan is an independent Australian artist, researcher, and writer working across multiple forms. Creative outcomes include objects, performance & installation, text & digital media, and durational & site-responsive work. Alongside her solo practice Julie is a facilitator, collaborator, mentor, citizen scientist and environmental dark advocate. Current projects are embedded in dark ecologies, relational practices,
- [RIMA](https://julievulcan.net/rima/) - A work by SQUIDSILO As you tap your message from the other side, I think this is the closest we will ever be, between us a wall a trillion skins thick.* RIMA is a work that attempts to draw attention to the fine line between security and fragility in relation to personal freedom and a
- [Wishing Dark](https://julievulcan.net/wishing-dark/) - WishingDARK nurturing a dark ecology WishingDARK is the banner title for an ongoing creative body of work including performance, installation, laboratory and creative fiction. Underpinning the deep research project is an investigation into relational ecologies of the dark beyond simply the human. The multi-sensorial and the multi-directional project engages actions of attention and care as
- [Night Drifts](https://julievulcan.net/night-drifts/) - A Love-letter to the Nocturnal During the day the night critters curl up in nests and dreys, burrows and hollows. As the bustle of day subsides they emerge, this is their time. In Night Drifts the audience is invited to nestle down into their own human-sized drey. Shifting the human perspective to a larger-than-life nocturnal
- [DARKswell](https://julievulcan.net/darkswell/) - Part Documentary. Part Love Letter “When the place you love and live suddenly becomes unfamiliar there is a wrench of the heart. Simultaneously there is a fierce urge to protect what is left in preparation for what will arrive once again.” Julie Vulcan Three years in the making, animating hundreds of still photos, and editing
- [I Stand In](https://julievulcan.net/i-stand-in/) - A durational performance in honour of the forgotten, misplaced, unrecovered and removed I Stand In reflects upon the complexity of personally understanding and processing global human tragedy. We think we empathise but maybe we actually intellectualise. In this work volunteer participants ‘stand in’ for a faceless individual. Attending to each one consecutively, a stylised ‘corpse-washing’
- [DARKlight_I:utterings](https://julievulcan.net/darklight_i/) - A WishingDARK project A visual and sensorial passage into the rich world of darkness. The liminal space between light and dark and the literal shift between cone and rod cells are explored across a fifty minute journey within a performative installation. Disrupting perceptions of architectural space, occupation, distance and proximity DARKlight_I: utterings is an invitation
- [DARKbody](https://julievulcan.net/darkbody/) - A WishingDARK project "This business of the dark is plump and ripe and juicy. But there is also slow time, tree time, earth time and mushroom dreaming." Julie Vulcan An audio and site work developed for Wired Open Day 2017 as part of the 'agri(culture)' project Humans are sandwiched between literal darkness, the things
- [Rescript](https://julievulcan.net/rescript/) - A ritual for living and ongoing connection. A muslin handkerchief. A knot to remember. A name. A loved one returned. Ash as rescript. Temporarily transporting ash from the land of my post-fire home, Rescript was a performance installation honouring the loss of non-human life during the Australian 2019/2020 Black Summer fires while simultaneously acknowledging
- [#afterthefire #daybyday](https://julievulcan.net/afterthefire-daybyday/) - #afterthefire #daybyday - visual diary, projects and research. A personal response to fire, loss, care and regeneration following the devastating Australian summer bushfires of 2019/2020. The day before summer solstice in the midst of the fire season a bushfire roared through the bush home I share with my partner, trees, plants, fungi, critters
- [RIMA artist booklet](https://julievulcan.net/rima-artist-booklet/) - RIMA: reaching for a word that does not exist Artist booklet accompanying the RIMA performance installation at Arts House 2016 Essays by Anna Gibbs, Ashley Scott, Theron Schmidt and Julie Vulcan. Interview with Charandev Singh. "it asks us to listen and in so doing question what is silenced. As we become privy to the
- [Going DARK](https://julievulcan.net/going-dark/) - An ongoing creative fiction for social media. Originally developed as part of a Masters of Research project (2019) Going DARK: care-full castings and delight-full deviations for a speculative fiction in an everyday world Going DARK website
- [Body As Material](https://julievulcan.net/body-as-material/) - Body As Material: reflections on sharing, doing and making solo Case-study produced for Critical Path Project 2018 Compiled and edited by Julie Vulcan Text contributions Ghenoa Gela, Weizen Ho, Joshua Pether, Alison Plevey and Julie Vulcan
- [Quiet Ecology](https://julievulcan.net/quiet-ecology/) - Quiet Ecology: a project by Jason Sweeney and collaborators Essays by Leah Barclay, Jason Sweeney, and Julie Vulcan. Visual contribution by Amy Milhinch and Dale A. Wright "In the darkening we begin to see. In the quietening we begin to listen." Julie Vulcan. 2016. "Of Dark Hunters and Quiet Gazers."
- [What is Performance Art?](https://julievulcan.net/what-is-performance-art/) - What is Performance Art? Australian Perspectives. Edited by Adam Geczy and Mimi Kelly Sydney: Power Publications 2018 "They represent last thoughts, last words, last whisperings, last things seen, last things heard, last things smelt, last actions. They are my own fictional and poetic interpretation and start to read like a merciless litany of last
- [In Loco In Place](https://julievulcan.net/in-loco-in-place/) - In Loco In Place is an experimental writing platform utilising social media as a creative space to convey and respond to live art. In Loco In Place imagines unique perspectives to reveal live art and aims to create a new work within itself. Stepping away from formalised structures that review or critique performance, In Loco
- [#afterthefire #daybyday A Visual Diary](https://julievulcan.net/atf-visual-diary/) - #afterthefire #daybyday - a visual diary A personal response to fire, loss, care and regeneration following the devastating Australian summer bushfires of 2019/2020. The day before summer solstice in the midst of the fire season a bushfire roared through the bush home I share with my partner, trees, plants, fungi, critters and creatures. Although
- [The Living Room Theatre](https://julievulcan.net/the-living-room-theatre/) - Dark Interludes a film by Michelle St Anne and Julie Vulcan with The Living Room Theatre Grief expands and contracts temporalities. The breath in deliberately occupies space The pause elongates the moment The release amplifies a remembering All to be repeated in a ritual of remembering, and remembering, and… To be enveloped by
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- [DARKpassage](https://julievulcan.net/darkpassage/) - Part survival. Part wonder. Part lament. Humans and nocturnal creatures have relied upon the night sky, the contours of the land, and shimmering waterways to navigate a quiet journey in the dark. Over time these markers have been eroded by clearing, settlement, urban planning, and light pollution. DARKpassage is an installation that considers the
- [Drift](https://julievulcan.net/drift/) - What do we hold onto when facing an uncertain future? Drift is a live installation inviting visitors to board a nestlike vessel amid a flotilla of similar twinkling crafts. Floating in this twilight place, each vessel – a childs’ flotation lilo and a nest of shredded paper - offers a precarious and tentative refuge for
- [Holding Now (44 days)](https://julievulcan.net/holding-now-44-days/) - A durational performance in which time and breath as grief and release are explored. Holding breath as expectation as holding onto as last breath as remembrance as ritual as release as letting go as goodbye In the last few months of my father’s life I often used the expression “It is like holding my
- [Redress](https://julievulcan.net/redress/) - The Redress series is a personal journey in which repeated motifs are explored, expanded and obliterated. Each incarnation responds to something identified as current or urgent and continues an interest in repetitive tasks as a means of transformation. As a ritual it is a personal recalibration in response to larger complex issues and in relation
- [Bloodstock](https://julievulcan.net/bloodstock/) - Bloodstock considers the anonymous blood donor, standing invisibly at the threshold of life and death, as a participant in a symbolic act that crosses biological boundaries and psychological borders. Highly emotive, blood has developed a magical and mythical quality across cultures and over millennia. Bloodlines have enabled the constructed establishment of power and the enactment
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- [The EDD Diaries](https://julievulcan.net/the-edd-diaries/) - A 2007 creative writing project. The EDD Diaries take as their starting point, internet spam, specifically spam that has arrived in the personal inbox offering solutions for Erectile Dysfunction Disorder (EDD). In response to the many creative ways in which spam is shrouded to sneak past filtering systems, this material has been used to create
- [Taking the Mickey Bliss](https://julievulcan.net/taking-the-mickey-bliss/) - What does it mean to be in Australia right now? A two-night durational performance staged in a glass cube. Surrounding borders, breaching borders and the credentials of the authority, were examined via self-conscious parody. The current political mileage built around conservative ideologies, are vexed problems for artists and free thinkers at large. This performance created
- [SQUIDSILO](https://julievulcan.net/squidsilo/) - SQUIDSILO is Ashley Scott and Julie Vulcan. Two Sydney-based artists, our collaboration is driven by common interests and the individual skills we bring to realise new ideas. Most of our work involves technology-based projects and is committed to exploring new ways of creating and developing work that inhabits multiple simultaneous spaces incorporating the physical and
- [Video Installation](https://julievulcan.net/video-installation/) - Between 1988 and 1993 over 12 Video and Sound Installation works were created and exhibited in local and national galleries and festivals. Working with combinations of still and moving image and SVHS tape, I devised a unique technique to develop my multi-layered and slowly dissolving images. Most installations were composed of 2 or more video
- [base-metal](https://julievulcan.net/base-metal/) - base-metal – a platform for research dialogue exchange performance Julie founded base-metal in 2014 as a Sydney based, artist-led initiative. It is committed to supporting the praxis of performance art as a dynamic responsive and mutable medium. From 2015 base-metal aims to activate physical and virtual spaces for critical discussion, exchange and research while facilitating
- [Breach](https://julievulcan.net/breach/) - A two-night durational performance staged in the glass cube of the Oxford Art Factory for FREEFALL October 2012. Choosing to enclose the performance area with venetian blinds, curtains and brown paper was a deliberate act to reverse the innately voyeuristic space and create a room inside a room. Over three hours the idea of a
- [Frumpus](https://julievulcan.net/frumpus/) - Frumpus developed out of the rich anarchic Sydney performance scene of the early 90’s, which included peers the Post Arrivalists. An all-girl ensemble, exploring ideas embedded in pop culture around beauty and the grotesque, their frumpy red tracksuit image was their signature. The line up changed over the years but a consistent core, with Cherlye
- [Unreasonable Adults](https://julievulcan.net/unreasonable-adults/) - We tried being reasonable. It didn't work out. Unreasonable Adults evolved from over a decade of various individual and independent performance practices. In 2002, Jason Sweeney, as the nodal point, instigated the teaming up of various artists with diverse practices. The collective started to form its mission, fuelled by self-instigated collaborations and residencies nationally and
- [threepointthreeseven](https://julievulcan.net/threepointthreeseven/) - A one year collaborative research project between Richard Hancock (UK) and Julie Vulcan April 2007 - April 2008. In April 2007, Richard and Julie were part of a group of International artists gathered to perform in Pacitti Company’s Grande Finale. Threepointthreeseven arose from a response to a provocation within a task driven devising workshop for
- [Un/Disclosed](https://julievulcan.net/undisclosed/) - A two year micro performance project taking place on the last Sunday of each month in the years 2008 (undisclosed) and 2009 (disclosed). In essence, it became a research project exploring and teasing out ideas and questions that surround the performative act, the audience, memory and the document. The project could only be viewed online.
- [Shortly...](https://julievulcan.net/shortly/) - A short performance contrasting the physical activity of skipping girl playground chants with a more solemn monologue delivered in the dark light of a laptop. The chants of the skip were used to parody bully politics and the monologue highlighted the slippery line between a normal day, an average person and a cosmopolitan city under
- [Everyday @ Somedays](https://julievulcan.net/everyday-somedays/) - 3 Sydney Artists excavating the extraordinary in the ordinary Lena Obergfell, Ashley Scott and Julie Vulcan Somedays Gallery, Sydney, 1 – 28 April 2009 Swivel – Series #1 ‘Swivel’ is about the act of looking in a social context. Eyes scan across the crowd, the body turns to view or hide. A glance and pause
- [Mz Very](https://julievulcan.net/mz-very/) - Mz_Very has many alter-egos appearing as Mz_Very_illin, Mz_Very_Normal, Mz Very_Thr(illin) and Mz_Very Xmas to date. Mz Very_Thr(illin) has performed her sickly sweet meditation on lost love, chocolate cake and a sharp knife at the infamous Club Kooky, in Unreasonable Adult’s The End of Romance 2005, at the Performance Space Cabaret for the Great Escape 2006
- [What you don't know](https://julievulcan.net/what-you-dont-know/) - What you don't know (but can probably guess) This is an ongoing project For one night or one week, I arrive at a window space in the late evening and inhabit it until dawn. Responding to the site and the urban landscape around I play witness to the late night habits, human or otherwise, that
- [B(b)UG](https://julievulcan.net/bbug/) - In reality the only thing on earth that can actually find a bug is a pair of well trained human eyes... www.ozspy.com.au A solo performance work, incorporating live and pre-recorded footage, light sensitive “bugs” and SMS. The etymology of the word bug reveals that it has associations with hobgoblin and ghost and can therefore be
- [So it goes like this...](https://julievulcan.net/so-it-goes-like-this/) - A short performance series merging live text and prerecorded video, each one is an ode to the ones slipping of the edge. Stylistically the performances draw on the staccato delivery of a news desk presenter to relate a number of stories juxtaposed against the slower, more intimate film exploring gesture and sound. This work evolved
- [Trawl](https://julievulcan.net/trawl/) - Part one of the Power of Constraint trilogy (Trawl – Harbour – Wend) A durational performance in which anonymous responses to the question “What do you regret you never said?” were received via SMS. In Perth, the work took place over 4 hours on top of a 3 storey stack of shipping containers from which
- [MZZINN'S Fafadadababar](https://julievulcan.net/mzzinns-fafadadababar/) - A one on one bar experience where each guest is invited to celebrate the spirit of DaDa and, almost 100 years later, stand once again against the horrors of World War and the impudence of the 1%. Each guest is asked to take a risk, follow their intuition and with the guidance of MZZINN replace
- [Harbour](https://julievulcan.net/harbour/) - Part two of the Power of Constraint trilogy (Trawl – Harbour – Wend) “What does your scar harbour?” In residence for a week at the Serial Space Gallery, responses were received from the public via SMS. Over this time single origami boats were created for each person into which their response was transcribed. On the
- [Wend](https://julievulcan.net/wend/) - Part three of the Power of Constraint trilogy (Trawl – Harbour – Wend) “What do you want to leave behind?” Wend was installed in Medium Rare window gallery for three weeks. The initial call out for SMS responses started 2 weeks before the official opening and continued for another 2 weeks allowing passers by to

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