to get these wondrous images of mud as it dried across my studio floor. These are a smattering of nearly 500 images i photographed on the day after the flood.
3 months after moving to country Tasmania we experienced a flood - nothing like the awful flooding that many experienced, all over Australia, where mud came up in their houses, waist high, destroying everything. Thankfully, our home is up a hill and it was the creek on our property that rose 6metres in some places and flooded paddocks including the one that is in front of my studio.
Up until 3am the flood rose in metres that engulfed the creek border encroaching about 3 metres across the land. We were moving furniture and #snowcone onto higher ground finally going to bed at 3am. The flood came and went the next 4 hours we slept, up and over paddocks and into my studio. When we got up in the morning around 7am all looked fine - the creek was as high as when we went to bed at 3am and it flowed across the roadways on the property and #snowcone's block was a raging river but otherwise it all looked like it was when we went to bed. This is what my studio looked like that morning of the next day.
from pretty (sort of) when we first went in to ugly as it dried (image3)
The shed/studio is huge - all of 18x12 metres.
For the level of non-devastation I am so very grateful. It was disappointing and overwhelming as we had just moved in and finally things were finding their place in the studio. On day one I could not face the clean up and then I started to notice the beautiful patterns created by worms washed in by the flood, and a chicken's foot print across the floor (having followed me in once i pulled the doors up) and cat paw prints (George the studio cat) as the mud started to dry I began taking photographs. All day.
Nearly 500 images as i knew this was a one-of and could not be recreated. (Many have since been deleted in the editing process)
My studio before I moved in
During the clean up after the flood .... V started me off and it took me 10 days to mop the whole place having moved all the stuff up one end ... mop mop mop then move it over to the other (mopped) side and mop mop mop and then sort out where everything went again. Felt like i had moved in all over again (just 3 months into settling into it)
There is also a video or two on my you tube channel here, showing the flood in action before it spilled over the paddock and internal roads.
They say the last one was 6 years ago ... so we anticipated it not happening for 6 years - we shall see.
Fabulous mud images