Eastern Process Documentation
When I articulate that to be Indigenous is to be tied to a place, that is also reflected in my creative energies and capacities as an academic and researcher. I needed to return home to write and to finish the generative components and the emotional parts of this work. How can I write about Land when I am disconnected from it? Our four directions teachings are tied to the seasons of my territory; the thirteen moons each calling forth a memory of time and place. Long fall shadows, frozen breath of winter, robin’s song in spring and thunderous summer rain.
Land Based Practice
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Land Based Practice *
These images in the following gallery were taken across Turtle Island from 2020-2025
Being on Country
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Being on Country *
These images in the following gallery were taken from the years 2022-2024 in the colonial state currently known as Australia. Being on Country is how a land-based practice is described in Indigenous communties across Austalia, as such I’ve chosen to label this section Being on Country.
The majority of photo were taken in Warrane (also spelt War-an, Warrang, and Wee-rong) is the Gadigal name for Sydney Cove, the place of first contact between the Gadigal and the European settlers. Specifically, the Gadigal (Paddington Campus), and the Bedegal (Kensington Campus) of the Dharug language group.
Regalia Process
images from the process of constructing my jingle dress in 2020 and my fully beaded mocasins in 2023-2024
Machine Build Process
images and video from the process of building my PC in early 2024
“This machine here is made from mother earth. It has a spirit of its own. This spirit probably hasn’t been recognized, and given the right respect that it should. When we work in a world of automated things, we forget that... everything is sacred, and that includes what we make.”
