n January 4, 2020, in the dark depths of the Black Summer, Australia awoke to images of one of our most revered hotels, reduced to a charred husk on a rise swept bare. Southern Ocean Lodge had been razed by fires that consumed almost half of Kangaroo Island, claiming two lives, countless native animals and livestock and most of Flinders Chase National Park. All that remained of the lodge was a suspended fireplace, a kangaroo crafted of salvaged steel by local artist Indiana James named , and ’s living contemporary, Sol
