Sensing materials of our Country

摘要

On a ferry from Circular Quay to Cockatoo Island with my siblings Sian and Michael, we recollected our family story that connects us to that place. As we passed under the Sydney Harbour Bridge we remembered that parts of our Country - Yuin Country on the New South Wales south coast - form its pylons. In fact, parts of our Country are all over Sydney, including the columns of the Sydney GPO, the Cenotaph in Martin Place, the base of the Captain Cook statue in Hyde Park, and the facade and side walls of the head office of the Bank of New South Wales.