Ngarrangga marrung barray
(Listen good to Country)
Nicole Smede
Wodi Wodi Gumea Dharawal / NSW / Australia
Michael Robinson
Wandra Wandian / NSW / Australia
Created in: 2023
Mediums: Acknowledgement of Country, coolamon and 16-channel sound installation
This is Gadi Eora Nation
spoken in heart
head bowed
spirit silent
waiting
for permission
listening
to wind
to water
falling
down
to skin
Mother’s skin.
It pools in her belly
her womb
and is cradled there in offering
like words spilt from lips
spoken from heart
they are cradled in held breath
hidden in stone
in trunk
behind leaf
and exhaled
gathay nyiirun let us go together
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