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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Damien Wright, 4:10pm 8/2/22 'Take your time', 2022
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Damien Wright, 4:10pm 8/2/22 'Take your time', 2022
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Damien Wright, 4:10pm 8/2/22 'Take your time', 2022
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Damien Wright, 4:10pm 8/2/22 'Take your time', 2022
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Damien Wright, 4:10pm 8/2/22 'Take your time', 2022

Damien Wright

4:10pm 8/2/22 'Take your time', 2022
10,000 year old Ancient River Red Gum, sterling silver
74 x 181 x 65 cm
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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Damien Wright, Tread Lightly, 2019
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Damien Wright, Tread Lightly, 2019
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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) Damien Wright, Tread Lightly, 2019
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Ancient river red gum is ancient, preserved river red gum, unearthed from a quarry on Yorta Country near Wodonga, Victoria. Radiocarbon dating has estimated this particular selection of timber to...
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Ancient river red gum is ancient, preserved river red gum, unearthed from a quarry on Yorta Country near Wodonga, Victoria. Radiocarbon dating has estimated this particular selection of timber to be around 10,000 years old, from just after the end of the last ice-age.

The timber, in the middle of a material transformation, can no longer be classified as timber but neither is it a fossil. Interestingly, if left underground for another 50 million years, it would become oil. A process of ‘metamorphosis’ that is as old as time.
Geomorphologist, Jim Bowler, notes that this particular species of red gum would have grown on the banks of the Murray River after the end of the last ice age, which peaked around 20,000 years ago. Over several thousands of years, melting snow and receding glaciers transported vast quantities of gravel and scree from the Victorian Alpine region - carving out valleys, collecting organic matter, and entombing fallen trees, including the river red gum.

Compacted in an acidic and oxygen-deprived environment, the timber slowly absorbs and becomes saturated with iron and silica - gradually becoming oxidised and ebonised, hardening and turning black. It is through these natural, ancient processes of material change that the river red gum is transformed and becomes the highly prized, Ancient River Red Gum.

This text is extracted from an article written by Myf Doughty, Assistant Curator, Contemporary Design and Architecture, The National Gallery of Victoria, published in the NGV Magazine, Issue 25, Nov - Dec 2020.
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