Colonization of Flora - © Lloyd Godman - 1993

artist journal - Colonization Flora - Lloyd Godman

During a trip to Sydney 1993 I was fascinated with some struggling specimens of Pohutakawa tree growing adjacent to the Sydney opera house. I found it interesting how New Zealand plants had colonized this strategic Australian cultural icon. Since then I have photographed over New Zealand native plants growing in other parts of the world.

It is quite amazing the locations that the have been infiltrated - for instance growing inside the dom in Cologne, an Italian boarder post, A keith Harring Sculpture near MOMA in San Francisco and inside the grounds of Fondation Maeght, St Paul de Vance France.

As the series continues to grow my ideas about this will also develop.