Story of the Piece: The Crossing

She didn't stop. She never does.

One of the things that never ceases to amaze me about living in Far North Queensland is walking to the beach and reading the crocodile sighting signs. Not as a tourist. Not as a visitor. As someone who lives here, who walks that path regularly, who knows that the signs are there because the sightings are real.

Crocodiles are iconic to this landscape in a way that goes beyond tourism or spectacle - they are simply part of life here, moving through the waterways with a purpose and a certainty that is both humbling and extraordinary.

The Crossing captures that moment of movement. Not the still, commanding presence of a crocodile holding its waterhole - this is a crocodile on the move, low and fast across the water, covering ground the way they do when they've decided where they're going. The flat resin base captures the surface of the water as she crosses it - barely disturbing it, leaving almost no trace.

Part of the permanent FNQ Resin Worlds series - a living archive of this landscape and its creatures, frozen in resin, one of a kind.

The things that have lived get to live again - and become something that lives in another person's soul.

Materials: Locally sourced river pebbles and driftwood, miniature crocodile, lily and water vegetation accents.

Dimensions: 25cm x 9cm

Price: $400