Sturt's Desert Pea kakadu NP Each flower uniquely beautiful as

Each flower uniquely beautiful as the next

and embracing life’s cycles of change with grace and courage

Grevillea eriostachya

Northern Territory

this artwork speaks to the balance between fierceness and tenderness

Sturt's Desert Pea kakadu NP Each flower uniquely beautiful asNGOORINGA Sturts Desert Pea ~~~ Flower of blood Symbolizing pain and endings, used for sorrows. Derived from the aboriginal tale of doomed lovers, struck down by the womans former betrothed, spilling not only their blood but that of their young son. Their pain staining the ground red, transforming and immortalizing the boys body into the first Sturts Desert Pea. A season later, the man returns to gloat and finds instead the flowers growing abundantly.