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It is just confirmed, I will be once again facilitating a trip next year to my beautiful family in Mapuru, Arnhemland to weave connections and cultural understanding. This is the mixed trip in June 2020 through CEREs global. I have been taking trips out to this wonderful community for the last 4 years and am so honoured to be able to continue to do this. All the trips are booked out so we are working towards planning another special one. Watch this space #Arnhemland #mapuru #culturalconnections #indigenousaustralia #connecttocountry #learnfromtheland #livingculture

It’s Foraging time again, These are one of my favourite fruit ! native red bush apples, syzygium suborbiculare. I made the flesh into a drink and saved the seeds. The drink was actually really lovely. Our native mammals love these guys #bushtucker #tropicalfruit #knowyournatives #landscapelove #indigenousplants

Water, essence if everything. So beautiful was that big downpour last week, no just the promise, a sprinkle, the times in between are quite suffocating. Our rain tank is ready. Let it come #waitingforrain #buildup #sweatseason #tropical #waterflow #muggy #hottropics

Water is life. It is to be shared fairly and carefully and supports our ecological systems. Gus Speth, an American scientist said “I used to think the top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought with 30 years of good science we could address this. But I was wrong, the Top environmental problems are sadness, greed and apathy. To deal with these we need a spiritual and cultural transformation (and we scientists don’t know how to do that)” Lets do this! We need to all be ready for transition and let go of this impossible bullshit of perpetual consumption and competition. Let’s collaborate and create. #wisewords #transition #connection #water #environmentallover #transition #naturelover

Check out the garden greens love. This is a mouthful of Brazilian spinach and as it starts to heat up its time to zone into our all year and wet season produce. I joined the little Gardeners at Lakeside Drive Community garden last month where all the little ones gathered greens and helped wash and sort them. I shared some growing tips and nutritional bits and Billie showed us her easy greens recipes. If you don’t know already this lady is a powerhouse for Environmental activism in the Top End. Watch this space for a recipe and hopefully a new member of parliament ! #ntgreens #greens #tropicalgreens #locallygrown #foodgardens #communitygardens #frackfreent #plantlove #offtheleashmagazine

Last post about this for a while , one more week of this exhibition showing in Katherine. This is my little part; It’s in our hands, as a set of 6 photos. If you want to know the thoughts behind the work and exhibition, read on......The food we eat and how we eat it are tightly intertwined and define identity in an ever changing society. This photographic series charts the complexity of choice through the migration of food from a raw, endemic source to processed product. The ethno- pharmacological importance of native and naturalised foods are challenged by extraction and processing to create artificial foods, vitamins and minerals that have seemingly no origin or source. Fast or slow food, whole or supplemented, this work contrasts the edible history and the food future that metaphorically lies in our hands. as part of “We eat we are”. We Eat We Are celebrates food as a form of social sculpture that unites, nourishes and renews. One more week to see it at GYRACC. #gyracc #weeatweare #indigenousfood #bushtucker #foodstories #katherinent #topendtaste #tropicalfood @spirries @gyracc @artback_nt

This is a wonderful body of work that is also in the “We eat, we are” exhibition. It is by a collective of Tiwi artists about collecting mud mussels. The shells are charred and painted and exhibited in conjunction with a soundtrack. this is fast food meeting time honoured connection to country. This Artback NT exhibition is currently in GYRACC in Katherine, where my photograph series is also in show. #Weeatweare #gyracc #bushtucker #connectiontocountry #indigenousfood #foodstories @gyracc @weeatweare @spirries

At the end of last week I embarked on a crazy trip down the highway and amongst swims in springs and feeling overwhelmed with gratitude to live in and amongst this beautiful country, I managed to get to check out the “We eat we are” exhibition in Katherine at GYRACC. The whole exhibition is really fabulous and a credit to @spirries who curated it. Here is the cheesey proud moment posing my photographs, which look pretty good all lined up amongst the other fabulous work; which are exhibited as you walk in as a set of 6. The whole exhibition explores our relationship to food and identity! Thanks to my hand models and food foragers. Check it out until October 26th #katherinent #weeatweare #gyracc #bushtucker #photographyexhibition #indigenousaustralia #foodart #foodstories #we areweeat @weeatweare #foodandidentity #foodorigins #ausoutbacknt #offtheleashmagazine @mette_design

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