Mirima National
Park lies on the edge of Kununurra. This
place is a shared commons with different groups negotiating its use including
Traditional Owners, tourists, the government and local community. The area has beautiful rock formations made
of layers of differing coloured ochres that were blown here from a mountain
range near Lake Argyle. The Land has
been mountains, seabeds, sand dunes and now eroding rock formations. The rocks
were once a layer, a mark of an event in time, now broken and reformed. It is a site of form and formlessness, a
continuous becoming and changing.
The process of making art in and about the
land unlocks and retains memories contained within it. Art processes and
materials reveal a particular way of occupying place and of accessing the
contained memory within it.
I believe that through working directly on
site the processes reveal traces in the land of past events.
The geological history and the social
histories interweave in a dialogue between artist and place. In this way there is a shift from the
landscape view that separates the viewer from the site and imposes a particular
history onto the land, to a view that is sensitive to the land’s subtle nuances.
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