the creek and cloth

The creek is taking on a life of its own, in my mind. A year of amazing abstract photos need to be edited as well as posting videos of plants, birds and wildlife in and around the creek. The mapping of landscape (with creek) and the trees that line the edges of the land is now part of daily explorations ... With this in mind I recently created this cage to place cloth, reels of cotton and blanket into it and drop it in the creek to see what happens. One of my 'what if' moments.

It took some time before i found the baskets i had in mind, that would stand 'living' in the creek and then the challenge of making sure the edges, where the holes are a bit larger, are blocked in so no fish, platypus or native crayfish is harmed.

(below) is a video of the early placement into the creek; the basket construction began like this with

the original idea being to enclose the basket by joining two together, one on top of the other initially using zip ties. it did not work out as they kept breaking being too tight and it occurred to me the plastic (and the hockey strap) may not have longevity in the creek. So i changed and used D-shackles.

And here the basket in the creek - first day. We have it chained at both ends with a picket in the ground to hold it and a long chain so it can be placed deep if need be.

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