#Nonplace

2024-09-23

Koalas and Australian wildlife - an obstacle to human expansion

"The Gold Coast property had been home to a thriving population of koalas and kangaroos but with the nation’s human population continuing to surge they’ve been displaced for new homes...Rescuer 'exhausted' as development destroys Australia's wildlife. Over the last two days, all I've done is [attended to] animals displaced or killed from development, and killed on roads."
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au.news.yahoo.com/photo-shows-

Western Sydney, human expansion and wildlife extinction
"Over to the southwest where large developments are underway, and roads are being widened, endangered koalas are dying at a rate that has experts worried. On Appin Road alone, 40 koalas have been killed in the last two years."
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au.news.yahoo.com/residents-fr
#ecocide #sprawl #roads #cars #NonPlace #BiodiversityCrisis #ExtinctionCrisis #Koalas #wildlife #habitat #bellingen #housing #SettlerSociety #FossilFuels #extinction makers

Hillbilly Highway (Steve Earle) devouring the landscape, Coffs Harbour
2023-10-19

You crush the lily in my soul

#moving #nonplace

2023-02-16

#Bellingen has a #traffic jam problem. The 'CBD' ist stuffed. Shopping is a 'running the gauntlet' experience. No matter how much they will 'straighten the bends and widen country roads', there will be just more and more cars. Removing 'bends' from very steep and winding country roads is eliminating #biodiversity #habitat.
Where will all the cars go from the newly smashed in suburbs? (North Bank Road etc) Working hard to make it a #Nonplace.

From Places to Non-Places
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-plac

#BellingenShire #BellingenBranding #Pollution #Roads #Livability #TownPlanners #Nonplace #Climate #Liveability #EmbraceCountryPace
Image: Logging truck with forest habitat rushing through the narrow bottleneck of Bellingen CBD

Logging truck with forest habitat rushing through the narrow bottleneck of Bellingen CBD
Andy Cropper - Artist 🌈andycropperart@mastodon.sdf.org
2022-11-23

After a long hiatus I've started reworking my website - I've just updated my page for the current work in progress - "St Mary's Gate Roundabout". The painting isn't finished but it's getting there👍

Click here to have a look 👇
andycropper.art/paintings/p/st

#art #artist #oilpainting #workinprogress #wip #painting #night #nocturne #Sheffield #liminal #liminalspace #realism #psychogeography #uncanny #urban #mastoart #ArtistsOnMastodon #MastodonArt #nonplace #geniusloci #NewTopographics #newtopography

A large rectangular painting is in the early stages of being drawn in with blue pastel. Rough angular, marks fill the canvas over the top of a drawn in grid. Andy's hand can be seen drawing. the scene shows trees, pavement and a small drawn in man can be seen on the right side of the canvas.This photo shows an image of a cityscape painting. The view is of St Mary's church, here in Sheffield as seen from inside the nearby roundabout. The picture shows a church with a glow where the clock face should be. Silhouettes of trees fill the scene and a bank of grass leads up to the side of the road. A small man can be seen walking into an entrance to an underpass. This layer shown is an underpainting layer so all the forms are feint a pale beige wash covers the image suggesting foggy nighttime.This photo shows an image of a cityscape painting. The view is of St Mary's church, here in Sheffield as seen from inside the nearby roundabout. The picture shows a church with a glow where the clock face should be. Silhouettes of trees fill the scene and a bank of grass leads up to the side of the road. A small man can be seen walking into an entrance to an underpass. This layer is an underpainting layer. All the forms have now been defined and it's very clear a night scene is shown. Everything has been painted in a singular warm , dark brown tone. Andy can be seen in profile working out what is left to be painted in.This photo shows an image of a cityscape painting which is nearing being finished. The view is of St Mary's church, here in Sheffield as seen from inside the nearby roundabout. The picture shows a church with a street light glow where the clock face should be. Silhouettes of trees fill the scene and a bank of grass leads up to the side of the unseen roundabout road. A small man can be seen walking into an entrance to an underpass. The whole scene has a feeling of winter and cold despite the warm sodium lit sky

This layer is an underpainting layer. All the forms have now been defined and it's very clear a night scene is shown. Everything has been further modelled and qualities of complex colour and form have come into the painting.  Andy can be seen in profile working on details in the foreground of the painting.

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Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst