Tina has created this series to acknowledge the history of the land, plants, and animals who have survived to this day. These Totems are like echoes of the past, embodying all creatures.

Demonstrating the fragility of life itself, creating these totems using hot glass. They represent the survival of all living things here in Australia, once part of Gondwanaland.

The recycled wood used in the totems are a symbol of ancient trees, once abundant and full of wisdom of the past. Gondwanaland was a super Continent in the Southern hemisphere, full of Rainforests that existed over 500 million years ago.

Present day Australia is a fragment of this ancient continent. The Daintree Rainforest in Queensland, is the world’s oldest tropical rainforest and contains over 500 rare plants and animals in the oldest continuously surviving rainforest on Earth.