Christmas Dinner
Artwork Description
This small painting tells the story of an ecosystem. The Scribbly-Gum tree is flowering, the Christmas Beetles are flying, so it must be around Christmas-time along the Eastern side of Australia. A glittering Christmas Beetle has chewed a gap in the gum leaf, then looked through the gap - and found a cheeky Sugar Glider looking right back at him! The adorable Sugar Glider has just emerged from her heart-shaped hollow in the warm sunset light, finding her glittering beetle-dinner already waiting. For now, both will just look at each other with curiosity, wondering - what happens next? Both the Sugar Glider and the Christmas Beetle are super cute, and both are now rare species that depend on habitat in old-growth eucalyptus trees to survive and thrive. What happens next for these ecosystems?