$600.00 (unframed)
Taken with a long exposure and a lit sparkler, I stood on the banks of the Merri Creek near where I live and wrote the words in the air “Unceded”. The long exposure recorded the moving sparkler and not the presence of my own body. As a Māori woman, I am conscious that these lands that I live and work and make on are not mine and that the local Aboriginal peoples have had, and continue to have, a unique relationship to this place. These lands have had story, song, ceremonies, dance, and art both practiced and renewed for tens of thousands of years. Always was, always will be, the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people, the custodians of this place, Merri Yaluk (Merri Creek).