Fall of the King Marri

“Marri Falls” stands as a solemn elegy to a 200-year-old Marri tree, toppled in the 2022 wildfire that swept through Western Australia. Once a towering centurion of the forest, it carried centuries of cultural memory and scientific witness, a guardian of rhythms long predating human reckoning. Its charred, blackened body rises in a haunting, hypnotic veil of blue smoke. Its fall marks more than loss, it whispers of a new age of wildfire, where forces accelerated by human hands overcome even the oldest giants. As the Marri falls, we are reminded of our own fragility and responsibility, and that we too shall follow, swept along by the tides of change