Driftwood Portal

Driftwood Portals

Dinner Tree Driftwood Portal

Derby is surrounded by a vast marsh.  Along the rim of the marsh the land  is fringed by a river of scattered drift wood that has been washed up by successive king tides.  Left drying and bleached under the Kimberley sun, the wood forms one of the many layers that make the Derby landscape.

Artist Catia Dolzadelli gathered these elements to create driftwood portals.  Designed as visual gates  inviting the viewer to re-examine and make a new connection with the landscape, the marsh, the town and their surrounds.

sunset and marsh driftwood portal