Veil of Trees

The work was designed by Janet Laurence and Jisuk Han as part of the Sydney Sculpture Walk Program in 1999, to highlight the indigenous botanical history of the site.

Recording this month’s frost, that season’s burning, the arrival and departure of leaves, birds, mice, barefoot invaders, and applecore wars in the kingdom of twigs.

Its dust-thick shadow reaches the road… David Malouf — from Evergreen Trees were their thoughts: peppermint gum black-sally, white tea-tree hung over creeks… There is there was a country that spoke in the language of leaves.

Judith Wright — from Falls Country There are five different Scribbly Gums, like five brothers in mythology, each bearing a significant name: sclerophylla, signata, rossii, racemosa and see the red rim of its fruit – haemastoma.

Jisuk Han has worked in interpretive design, art and architecture for more than twenty years and collaborates with artists, architects, curators and museums throughout Australia.