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There was a time when all matter, light and life came into being, with a sense of ribbons that made waves that bought us to the life we know today. That’s how I imagine it – where looking into a point of time allows an imagining of the many paths of the realities bought about by the ribbons ebb and flow – and the effects of these waves across all of creation. These waves can tell a story as ancient as the farthest particle in the universes, and as close as the call of a kookaburra to its neighbor in the tree outside my window.There are an infinite number of ways to describe knowledge and ways of doing and of being. In my worlds, science, medicine, chemistry, astronomy, engineering, land management, mapping, navigation, dance, ceremony, song, art, storytelling and most importantly – belonging - all play a role.  I have tried to capture what creation could look like – and how the many parts of existence can come together and meet. Like us, our cultures have, over time been dynamic, evolving and ever changing. More so over the last 200 years as we continue to keep our Aboriginal spirits alive and burning bright as we do with the connections to our history’s, our cultures, our stories, our languages, to our ancestors and to our Country.  Our aliveness manifests strongly in academia, sports, politics, and a vast array of the arts. These pursuits and many others are expressions of identity, culture, spirituality, connection and relationships to Country, how we care for Country and how we belong.  Art tells of modern stories of ceremony and Creation and connects people to ancestors and kin, blood and clan and throughout this much art remains based on ancient stories, some as far back as creation of living things, while other works tell about how lands, waters and space was created. Art also shares a strong contemporary context, telling the story of now to our future selves and descendants. Knowledges of the land, of science and of language transformed into art – significantly rely on the visual to educate and to pass on knowledges through paintings, in song and by movement.  These can be on rock, in sand, on trees, in landforms, on peoples bodies, on canvas, on paper or woven from produce of the land. There is nothing we can’t do to ensure how these story’s are transmitted and varies with the continuance of artistic expression which continues to play an important role in our lives and our cultures as they have done for tens of thousands of years.

Sources
Encyclopaedia Britannica.  Georges Lemaître - Belgian Astronomer.
Accessed 22 November 2023. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Georges-Lemaitre

Personal communication between Lisa and her grandmother, circa 1980. Revesby.

The Public Defenders Office. Cultural Dispossession Experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. IN The Bugmy Bar Book. November 2020.  Accessed 22 November 2023. https://www.publicdefenders.nsw.gov.au/Pages/public_defenders_research/bar-book/pdf/BBP_CulturalDispossession_chapter-Nov2020.pdf

Prints
Single on paper

Medium
Acid etched copper plate print onto paper

Paper
300gsm Hahnemühle

Ink
Charbonnel 55981 Black, Charbonnel Gold

Press
George Baldessin ‘Big George’ electric press at St Andrews, Victoria

Size

Paper is 50 x 50, print is 40 x 40

Year
2023

Edition
4