The trees have no tongues

(2019)

The trees have no tongues is a portal to the in-between and shares the traces of Aboriginal women lost to the colonial White supremacy orders. It tells of the thousands of years of Aboriginal cultural practices that were dismantled by the Aboriginal Mission Stations with the introduction of Christianity, assimmilation practices of slavery and segregation, and banning of cultural practices to Indigenous life and the irreparable trauma that ensued. The heaviness of their spirits scarred the places they touched, leaving behind remnants of their stories of bare survival embedded within trauma.

 

The Trees Have No Tongues, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Australia.

The Trees Have No Tongues, UTS Gallery, Australia.