THE Easter holiday weekend provided the ideal conditions to showcase a Community Craft Project in the heart of Woolgoolga.
Visitors and locals alike were greeted with a veritable inundation of handmade daffodils and butterflies.
In the weeks leading up to Easter, students from St Francis Xavier, local churches, craft groups and a cast of various individual volunteers, had busied themselves crafting hundreds of butterflies and daffodils out of disposable plates and cups, completing the effort with a dazzling use of colour and paint.
The Woolgoolga Community Project came about as a collaboration between Woolgoolga Community Creations and the Ever-greenhouse initiative.
One of the organisers, Robyn Lockwood, told News Of The Area that she was “so appreciative of the effort and the community involvement.
“I read all the little signs, just heart-warming.”
The zero-impact display saw the collective output placed discreetly at the base of designated garden beds, arcing around the grassed area in front of the playground and adjacent to the main path, joining Beach Street to the foreshore.
The installation came to life at night courtesy of solar lighting illuminating the trees, particularly the centrally
located symbol of the cross.
“I love the effect of the lit up cross with the heart at the bottom – the gospel without words, everyone who saw it would just ‘get it’,” Trish Rae told NOTA.
The symbolic significance of the daffodils and butterflies was in representing the emergence of new life.
By KIM SATCHELL
