She dyes linen in lakes. She boils bark for pigment. Wild and beautiful, Josephine Jakobi’s art is a collaboration with nature.
Words Emma Hearnes
Photography Nicky Cawood
WHEN Josephine Jakobi starts an artwork, she packs her Troopie with a tent, a camping stove and a bolt of raw Belgian linen.
She drives about 45 minutes from her home in Bungalook to the mouth of Lake Tyers (Bung Yarnda), a shallow estuary in Victoria’s East Gippsland. Here she pitches her tent by the shore, loads her kayak with the linen and paddles out to find a fallen tree with branches dipping into the water where she can anchor pieces of her weighted fabric.
