METHODS

• As an art practitioner, practice-based art research.

• Attending the Nirin Sydney Biennale and the aabaakwad 2020 NIRIN gathering and artist talks.

• Conversations with my Elders on folklore, stories passed down to them through family. Contemporary  Kulin culture draws upon the oral history passed down through the generations.     

•   Peer reviewed sources, Internet articles and videos. 

• Archival and family photographs.

• Artists: Steaphan Paton - Urban Doolagahl  2011,  Ellen Jose - Boon wurrung Blossom 2008, Maree and Peter Clarke’s Tram 1988, Time of Chaos, Bunjil’s Eggs - Glenn Romanis 2008, KAWS x ACUTE ART 2020 and Alan Michelson with Steve Fragale, “Sapponckanikan (Tobacco Field)” (2019), augmented reality.

•  Melbourne Museum photographs of ancestral belongings.

• Historical references and illustrations, Smyth, R. Brough observations and the William Thomas journals.

• Trial and error

• Depression and desperation

• Critical refection 

• Experimentation

• Audience Collaboration

• Play