Days of Reckoning 2008 – timber chairs, photographs, video projection (2500mm W x 500mm D x 900mm H)
This work seeks to address the silence in our community around the history of dispossession and loss of the First Nation People of Australia, and, more specifically, the original inhabitants of the lower reaches of the Hawkesbury River north of Sydney where I live.
The four chairs are a metaphor for the family unit. On the front of each chair is a photograph of a ceramic bone onto which is superimposed a map of the Hawkesbury River. On the back of each chair there is a single word from the Karee language that was once local to the lower Hawkesbury River –
niae, beung, enalgun, enale
(mother, father, daughter, son).
video clip
The four chairs are a metaphor for the family unit. On the front of each chair is a photograph of a ceramic bone onto which is superimposed a map of the Hawkesbury River. On the back of each chair there is a single word from the Karee language that was once local to the lower Hawkesbury River –
niae, beung, enalgun, enale
(mother, father, daughter, son).
video clip