Cita Daidone, Queen of the Anenome, 2022, porcelain, 20 x 20cm. Courtesy: The Artist and Shoalhaven Regional Gallery. 

Burnt sticks, logs and ash washed up along the sands of local Jervis Bay beaches, the flotsam and jetsam of the Currowan fire, are the impetus for the creation of these works.

Working with these forgotten bits of the burnt bush, Cita Daidone created clay moulds of these intricate forms. Twigs and burnt animal bones are arranged meticulously and reverently in a way that flowers might be laid at a gravesite to acknowledge and pay respect to the unfathomable number of trees, insects and wildlife lost in the fires. Each square porcelain panel acts as a memento mori to the Black Summer bushfires.