Constance ARI

This work was created to reunite a cultural landscape.
A landscape that has been divided into sites and parcels.

A landscape still connected by story.
Stories told, stories left. Stories of family, community and gathering.
Of deep bags and freshwater to follow. Of fires and shells up the hill.
Stories of quarries, tools, hunting and kangaroo.
Mumirimina stories that Palawa still tell. Palawa stories that continue.

There are chimes at both piyura kitina and Bedlam Walls.
The chimes bear the marks of the landscape.
Imprinted with plant, stone, ash and earth.

The chimes, made from one place, brought to the other.
Hear piyura kitina and Bedlam Walls reunited with sound.
They sound for each other and they sound together.
Hear in the chiming the story of one landscape,
one journey across Mumirimina Country made many times.

Nunami Sculthorpe-Green is a Palawa Warlpiri storyteller from nipaluna, well known for ‘takara nipaluna’.
‘Country Calling’ is a work that is made of, and for, Aboriginal Land.