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Star Finder
... inside the Maritime Museum of Tasmania
He left the Star Finder open on the table... he may return soon. Above stars from the sea mirror our home galaxy, the Milky Way ... indigenous earth sky reflections amid contemporary stories of seastar invasion and western colonisation.
Site specific installation
Materials: Invasive Northern Pacific seastars, Star Finder, Bernards' Nautical Star Chart, Earth Sky Reflections booklet, ABC news report.
Materials: Invasive Northern Pacific seastars, Star Finder, Bernards' Nautical Star Chart, Earth Sky Reflections booklet, ABC news report.
"When I look at the night sky I'm reminded of something a Gamilaraay elder once told me – and that I know is echoed in many nations all across Australia – and that is – what is on the land is reflected in the sky and what is in the sky is reflected on the land. " KN
'In the dreaming a group of sky women danced as stars in the Milky Way. One of the women placed her baby in a wooden guliman as the women continued dancing the guliman fell and the baby plunged into the earth the force of the baby striking the ground drove these rocks upwards and this crater was created. … …..For the Arrernte the guliman and the baby are falling from the Milky Way – and that story still lives on today – you know – the parents searching for their child – the mother, the evening star and the father, the morning star 'AP
Aaron Pedersen & Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
Extracts from Back to Nature – episode 8: red earth heart. 2022
* * *
-'Bilabang is a pool of water cut off from the river and it's also a name for the ‘Milky Way’.
From the Wiradjuri Dictionary Uncle Stan Grant and Aunty Flo Grant.
* * *
"Our ancestors are from the stars. They said every grain of sand here was once from a star."
From ' The Untold Tale of Tuteremoana ' ancient oral Maori stories.'
* * *
"... bila seeks the mangrove to clear the silt cycle
to move towards the sea
to dive into a world known as kin but always one hard to hold
to flow out and out to be reimagined as rain
and rejoin the lands of all rivers
of all stars
welcomed again into bilabang"
From - Bila, a river cycle. Jazz Money. 2021. 'How to Make a Basket'
* * *
'In the dreaming a group of sky women danced as stars in the Milky Way. One of the women placed her baby in a wooden guliman as the women continued dancing the guliman fell and the baby plunged into the earth the force of the baby striking the ground drove these rocks upwards and this crater was created. … …..For the Arrernte the guliman and the baby are falling from the Milky Way – and that story still lives on today – you know – the parents searching for their child – the mother, the evening star and the father, the morning star 'AP
Aaron Pedersen & Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
Extracts from Back to Nature – episode 8: red earth heart. 2022
* * *
-'Bilabang is a pool of water cut off from the river and it's also a name for the ‘Milky Way’.
From the Wiradjuri Dictionary Uncle Stan Grant and Aunty Flo Grant.
* * *
"Our ancestors are from the stars. They said every grain of sand here was once from a star."
From ' The Untold Tale of Tuteremoana ' ancient oral Maori stories.'
* * *
"... bila seeks the mangrove to clear the silt cycle
to move towards the sea
to dive into a world known as kin but always one hard to hold
to flow out and out to be reimagined as rain
and rejoin the lands of all rivers
of all stars
welcomed again into bilabang"
From - Bila, a river cycle. Jazz Money. 2021. 'How to Make a Basket'
* * *
Look into the Derwent River | timtumili minanya outside this Museum and you'll see masses of these invasive Northern Pacific seastars. These seastars on the wall were collected from the river as a part of the ongoing removal effort.
They were first detected in 1986, have outcompeted indigenous species, are devastating the ecosystem and spreading up and down our eastern coastline.
They were first detected in 1986, have outcompeted indigenous species, are devastating the ecosystem and spreading up and down our eastern coastline.
Star Finder and Nautical Chart from the collection of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania.
... sea stars spreading
"Our ancestors are from the stars. They said every grain of sand here was once from a star."
From ' The Untold Tale of Tuteremoana ' ancient oral Maori stories.'
* * *
'Bilabang is a pool of water cut off from the river. Bilabang is also a name for the ‘Milky Way’.
From the Wiradjuri Dictionary Uncle Stan Grant and Aunty Flo Grant.
* * *
"... bila seeks the mangrove to clear the silt cycle
to move towards the sea
to dive into a world known as kin but always one hard to hold
to flow out and out to be reimagined as rain
and rejoin the lands of all rivers
of all stars
welcomed again into bilabang"
From - Bila, a river cycle. Jazz Money. 2021. 'How to Make a Basket'
* * *
"When I look at the night sky I'm reminded of something a Gamilaraay elder once told me – and that I know is echoed in many nations all across Australia – and that is – what is on the land is reflected in the sky and what is in the sky is reflected on the land. " KN
'In the dreaming a group of sky women danced as stars in the Milky Way. One of the women placed her baby in a wooden guliman as the women continued dancing the guliman fell and the baby plunged into the earth the force of the baby striking the ground drove these rocks upwards and this crater was created. … …..For the Arrernte the guliman and the baby are falling from the Milky Way – and that story still lives on today – you know – the parents searching for their child – the mother, the evening star and the father, the morning star 'AP
Aaron Pedersen & Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
Extracts from Back to Nature – episode 8: red earth heart. 2022
* * *
From ' The Untold Tale of Tuteremoana ' ancient oral Maori stories.'
* * *
'Bilabang is a pool of water cut off from the river. Bilabang is also a name for the ‘Milky Way’.
From the Wiradjuri Dictionary Uncle Stan Grant and Aunty Flo Grant.
* * *
"... bila seeks the mangrove to clear the silt cycle
to move towards the sea
to dive into a world known as kin but always one hard to hold
to flow out and out to be reimagined as rain
and rejoin the lands of all rivers
of all stars
welcomed again into bilabang"
From - Bila, a river cycle. Jazz Money. 2021. 'How to Make a Basket'
* * *
"When I look at the night sky I'm reminded of something a Gamilaraay elder once told me – and that I know is echoed in many nations all across Australia – and that is – what is on the land is reflected in the sky and what is in the sky is reflected on the land. " KN
'In the dreaming a group of sky women danced as stars in the Milky Way. One of the women placed her baby in a wooden guliman as the women continued dancing the guliman fell and the baby plunged into the earth the force of the baby striking the ground drove these rocks upwards and this crater was created. … …..For the Arrernte the guliman and the baby are falling from the Milky Way – and that story still lives on today – you know – the parents searching for their child – the mother, the evening star and the father, the morning star 'AP
Aaron Pedersen & Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
Extracts from Back to Nature – episode 8: red earth heart. 2022
* * *
Site specific installation
Materials: Invasive Northern Pacific seastars, Star Finder, Bernards' Nautical Star Chart, Earth Sky Reflections booklet, ABC news report.
Materials: Invasive Northern Pacific seastars, Star Finder, Bernards' Nautical Star Chart, Earth Sky Reflections booklet, ABC news report.
"When I look at the night sky I'm reminded of something a Gamilaraay elder once told me – and that I know is echoed in many nations all across Australia – and that is – what is on the land is reflected in the sky and what is in the sky is reflected on the land. " KN
'In the dreaming a group of sky women danced as stars in the Milky Way. One of the women placed her baby in a wooden guliman as the women continued dancing the guliman fell and the baby plunged into the earth the force of the baby striking the ground drove these rocks upwards and this crater was created. … …..For the Arrernte the guliman and the baby are falling from the Milky Way – and that story still lives on today – you know – the parents searching for their child – the mother, the evening star and the father, the morning star 'AP
Aaron Pedersen & Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
Extracts from Back to Nature – episode 8: red earth heart. 2022
* * *
-'Bilabang is a pool of water cut off from the river and it's also a name for the ‘Milky Way’.
From the Wiradjuri Dictionary Uncle Stan Grant and Aunty Flo Grant.
* * *
"Our ancestors are from the stars. They said every grain of sand here was once from a star."
From ' The Untold Tale of Tuteremoana ' ancient oral Maori stories.'
* * *
"... bila seeks the mangrove to clear the silt cycle
to move towards the sea
to dive into a world known as kin but always one hard to hold
to flow out and out to be reimagined as rain
and rejoin the lands of all rivers
of all stars
welcomed again into bilabang"
From - Bila, a river cycle. Jazz Money. 2021. 'How to Make a Basket'
* * *
'In the dreaming a group of sky women danced as stars in the Milky Way. One of the women placed her baby in a wooden guliman as the women continued dancing the guliman fell and the baby plunged into the earth the force of the baby striking the ground drove these rocks upwards and this crater was created. … …..For the Arrernte the guliman and the baby are falling from the Milky Way – and that story still lives on today – you know – the parents searching for their child – the mother, the evening star and the father, the morning star 'AP
Aaron Pedersen & Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
Extracts from Back to Nature – episode 8: red earth heart. 2022
* * *
-'Bilabang is a pool of water cut off from the river and it's also a name for the ‘Milky Way’.
From the Wiradjuri Dictionary Uncle Stan Grant and Aunty Flo Grant.
* * *
"Our ancestors are from the stars. They said every grain of sand here was once from a star."
From ' The Untold Tale of Tuteremoana ' ancient oral Maori stories.'
* * *
"... bila seeks the mangrove to clear the silt cycle
to move towards the sea
to dive into a world known as kin but always one hard to hold
to flow out and out to be reimagined as rain
and rejoin the lands of all rivers
of all stars
welcomed again into bilabang"
From - Bila, a river cycle. Jazz Money. 2021. 'How to Make a Basket'
* * *
Look into the Derwent River | timtumili minanya outside this Museum and you'll see masses of these invasive Northern Pacific seastars. These seastars on the wall were collected from the river as a part of the ongoing removal effort.
They were first detected in 1986, have outcompeted indigenous species, are devastating the ecosystem and spreading up and down our eastern coastline.
They were first detected in 1986, have outcompeted indigenous species, are devastating the ecosystem and spreading up and down our eastern coastline.
Star Finder and Nautical Chart from the collection of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania.
... sea stars spreading
"Our ancestors are from the stars. They said every grain of sand here was once from a star."
From ' The Untold Tale of Tuteremoana ' ancient oral Maori stories.'
* * *
'Bilabang is a pool of water cut off from the river. Bilabang is also a name for the ‘Milky Way’.
From the Wiradjuri Dictionary Uncle Stan Grant and Aunty Flo Grant.
* * *
"... bila seeks the mangrove to clear the silt cycle
to move towards the sea
to dive into a world known as kin but always one hard to hold
to flow out and out to be reimagined as rain
and rejoin the lands of all rivers
of all stars
welcomed again into bilabang"
From - Bila, a river cycle. Jazz Money. 2021. 'How to Make a Basket'
* * *
"When I look at the night sky I'm reminded of something a Gamilaraay elder once told me – and that I know is echoed in many nations all across Australia – and that is – what is on the land is reflected in the sky and what is in the sky is reflected on the land. " KN
'In the dreaming a group of sky women danced as stars in the Milky Way. One of the women placed her baby in a wooden guliman as the women continued dancing the guliman fell and the baby plunged into the earth the force of the baby striking the ground drove these rocks upwards and this crater was created. … …..For the Arrernte the guliman and the baby are falling from the Milky Way – and that story still lives on today – you know – the parents searching for their child – the mother, the evening star and the father, the morning star 'AP
Aaron Pedersen & Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
Extracts from Back to Nature – episode 8: red earth heart. 2022
* * *
From ' The Untold Tale of Tuteremoana ' ancient oral Maori stories.'
* * *
'Bilabang is a pool of water cut off from the river. Bilabang is also a name for the ‘Milky Way’.
From the Wiradjuri Dictionary Uncle Stan Grant and Aunty Flo Grant.
* * *
"... bila seeks the mangrove to clear the silt cycle
to move towards the sea
to dive into a world known as kin but always one hard to hold
to flow out and out to be reimagined as rain
and rejoin the lands of all rivers
of all stars
welcomed again into bilabang"
From - Bila, a river cycle. Jazz Money. 2021. 'How to Make a Basket'
* * *
"When I look at the night sky I'm reminded of something a Gamilaraay elder once told me – and that I know is echoed in many nations all across Australia – and that is – what is on the land is reflected in the sky and what is in the sky is reflected on the land. " KN
'In the dreaming a group of sky women danced as stars in the Milky Way. One of the women placed her baby in a wooden guliman as the women continued dancing the guliman fell and the baby plunged into the earth the force of the baby striking the ground drove these rocks upwards and this crater was created. … …..For the Arrernte the guliman and the baby are falling from the Milky Way – and that story still lives on today – you know – the parents searching for their child – the mother, the evening star and the father, the morning star 'AP
Aaron Pedersen & Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
Extracts from Back to Nature – episode 8: red earth heart. 2022
* * *
Site specific installation
Materials: Invasive Northern Pacific seastars, Star Finder, Bernards' Nautical Star Chart, Earth Sky Reflections booklet, ABC news report.
Materials: Invasive Northern Pacific seastars, Star Finder, Bernards' Nautical Star Chart, Earth Sky Reflections booklet, ABC news report.
"When I look at the night sky I'm reminded of something a Gamilaraay elder once told me – and that I know is echoed in many nations all across Australia – and that is – what is on the land is reflected in the sky and what is in the sky is reflected on the land. " KN
'In the dreaming a group of sky women danced as stars in the Milky Way. One of the women placed her baby in a wooden guliman as the women continued dancing the guliman fell and the baby plunged into the earth the force of the baby striking the ground drove these rocks upwards and this crater was created. … …..For the Arrernte the guliman and the baby are falling from the Milky Way – and that story still lives on today – you know – the parents searching for their child – the mother, the evening star and the father, the morning star 'AP
Aaron Pedersen & Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
Extracts from Back to Nature – episode 8: red earth heart. 2022
* * *
-'Bilabang is a pool of water cut off from the river and it's also a name for the ‘Milky Way’.
From the Wiradjuri Dictionary Uncle Stan Grant and Aunty Flo Grant.
* * *
"Our ancestors are from the stars. They said every grain of sand here was once from a star."
From ' The Untold Tale of Tuteremoana ' ancient oral Maori stories.'
* * *
"... bila seeks the mangrove to clear the silt cycle
to move towards the sea
to dive into a world known as kin but always one hard to hold
to flow out and out to be reimagined as rain
and rejoin the lands of all rivers
of all stars
welcomed again into bilabang"
From - Bila, a river cycle. Jazz Money. 2021. 'How to Make a Basket'
* * *
'In the dreaming a group of sky women danced as stars in the Milky Way. One of the women placed her baby in a wooden guliman as the women continued dancing the guliman fell and the baby plunged into the earth the force of the baby striking the ground drove these rocks upwards and this crater was created. … …..For the Arrernte the guliman and the baby are falling from the Milky Way – and that story still lives on today – you know – the parents searching for their child – the mother, the evening star and the father, the morning star 'AP
Aaron Pedersen & Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
Extracts from Back to Nature – episode 8: red earth heart. 2022
* * *
-'Bilabang is a pool of water cut off from the river and it's also a name for the ‘Milky Way’.
From the Wiradjuri Dictionary Uncle Stan Grant and Aunty Flo Grant.
* * *
"Our ancestors are from the stars. They said every grain of sand here was once from a star."
From ' The Untold Tale of Tuteremoana ' ancient oral Maori stories.'
* * *
"... bila seeks the mangrove to clear the silt cycle
to move towards the sea
to dive into a world known as kin but always one hard to hold
to flow out and out to be reimagined as rain
and rejoin the lands of all rivers
of all stars
welcomed again into bilabang"
From - Bila, a river cycle. Jazz Money. 2021. 'How to Make a Basket'
* * *
Look into the Derwent River | timtumili minanya outside this Museum and you'll see masses of these invasive Northern Pacific seastars. These seastars on the wall were collected from the river as a part of the ongoing removal effort.
They were first detected in 1986, have outcompeted indigenous species, are devastating the ecosystem and spreading up and down our eastern coastline.
They were first detected in 1986, have outcompeted indigenous species, are devastating the ecosystem and spreading up and down our eastern coastline.
Star Finder and Nautical Chart from the collection of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania.
... sea stars spreading
"Our ancestors are from the stars. They said every grain of sand here was once from a star."
From ' The Untold Tale of Tuteremoana ' ancient oral Maori stories.'
* * *
'Bilabang is a pool of water cut off from the river. Bilabang is also a name for the ‘Milky Way’.
From the Wiradjuri Dictionary Uncle Stan Grant and Aunty Flo Grant.
* * *
"... bila seeks the mangrove to clear the silt cycle
to move towards the sea
to dive into a world known as kin but always one hard to hold
to flow out and out to be reimagined as rain
and rejoin the lands of all rivers
of all stars
welcomed again into bilabang"
From - Bila, a river cycle. Jazz Money. 2021. 'How to Make a Basket'
* * *
"When I look at the night sky I'm reminded of something a Gamilaraay elder once told me – and that I know is echoed in many nations all across Australia – and that is – what is on the land is reflected in the sky and what is in the sky is reflected on the land. " KN
'In the dreaming a group of sky women danced as stars in the Milky Way. One of the women placed her baby in a wooden guliman as the women continued dancing the guliman fell and the baby plunged into the earth the force of the baby striking the ground drove these rocks upwards and this crater was created. … …..For the Arrernte the guliman and the baby are falling from the Milky Way – and that story still lives on today – you know – the parents searching for their child – the mother, the evening star and the father, the morning star 'AP
Aaron Pedersen & Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
Extracts from Back to Nature – episode 8: red earth heart. 2022
* * *
From ' The Untold Tale of Tuteremoana ' ancient oral Maori stories.'
* * *
'Bilabang is a pool of water cut off from the river. Bilabang is also a name for the ‘Milky Way’.
From the Wiradjuri Dictionary Uncle Stan Grant and Aunty Flo Grant.
* * *
"... bila seeks the mangrove to clear the silt cycle
to move towards the sea
to dive into a world known as kin but always one hard to hold
to flow out and out to be reimagined as rain
and rejoin the lands of all rivers
of all stars
welcomed again into bilabang"
From - Bila, a river cycle. Jazz Money. 2021. 'How to Make a Basket'
* * *
"When I look at the night sky I'm reminded of something a Gamilaraay elder once told me – and that I know is echoed in many nations all across Australia – and that is – what is on the land is reflected in the sky and what is in the sky is reflected on the land. " KN
'In the dreaming a group of sky women danced as stars in the Milky Way. One of the women placed her baby in a wooden guliman as the women continued dancing the guliman fell and the baby plunged into the earth the force of the baby striking the ground drove these rocks upwards and this crater was created. … …..For the Arrernte the guliman and the baby are falling from the Milky Way – and that story still lives on today – you know – the parents searching for their child – the mother, the evening star and the father, the morning star 'AP
Aaron Pedersen & Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
Extracts from Back to Nature – episode 8: red earth heart. 2022
* * *
Site specific installation
Materials: Invasive Northern Pacific seastars, Star Finder, Bernards' Nautical Star Chart, Earth Sky Reflections booklet, ABC news report.
Materials: Invasive Northern Pacific seastars, Star Finder, Bernards' Nautical Star Chart, Earth Sky Reflections booklet, ABC news report.
"When I look at the night sky I'm reminded of something a Gamilaraay elder once told me – and that I know is echoed in many nations all across Australia – and that is – what is on the land is reflected in the sky and what is in the sky is reflected on the land. " KN
'In the dreaming a group of sky women danced as stars in the Milky Way. One of the women placed her baby in a wooden guliman as the women continued dancing the guliman fell and the baby plunged into the earth the force of the baby striking the ground drove these rocks upwards and this crater was created. … …..For the Arrernte the guliman and the baby are falling from the Milky Way – and that story still lives on today – you know – the parents searching for their child – the mother, the evening star and the father, the morning star 'AP
Aaron Pedersen & Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
Extracts from Back to Nature – episode 8: red earth heart. 2022
* * *
-'Bilabang is a pool of water cut off from the river and it's also a name for the ‘Milky Way’.
From the Wiradjuri Dictionary Uncle Stan Grant and Aunty Flo Grant.
* * *
"Our ancestors are from the stars. They said every grain of sand here was once from a star."
From ' The Untold Tale of Tuteremoana ' ancient oral Maori stories.'
* * *
"... bila seeks the mangrove to clear the silt cycle
to move towards the sea
to dive into a world known as kin but always one hard to hold
to flow out and out to be reimagined as rain
and rejoin the lands of all rivers
of all stars
welcomed again into bilabang"
From - Bila, a river cycle. Jazz Money. 2021. 'How to Make a Basket'
* * *
'In the dreaming a group of sky women danced as stars in the Milky Way. One of the women placed her baby in a wooden guliman as the women continued dancing the guliman fell and the baby plunged into the earth the force of the baby striking the ground drove these rocks upwards and this crater was created. … …..For the Arrernte the guliman and the baby are falling from the Milky Way – and that story still lives on today – you know – the parents searching for their child – the mother, the evening star and the father, the morning star 'AP
Aaron Pedersen & Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
Extracts from Back to Nature – episode 8: red earth heart. 2022
* * *
-'Bilabang is a pool of water cut off from the river and it's also a name for the ‘Milky Way’.
From the Wiradjuri Dictionary Uncle Stan Grant and Aunty Flo Grant.
* * *
"Our ancestors are from the stars. They said every grain of sand here was once from a star."
From ' The Untold Tale of Tuteremoana ' ancient oral Maori stories.'
* * *
"... bila seeks the mangrove to clear the silt cycle
to move towards the sea
to dive into a world known as kin but always one hard to hold
to flow out and out to be reimagined as rain
and rejoin the lands of all rivers
of all stars
welcomed again into bilabang"
From - Bila, a river cycle. Jazz Money. 2021. 'How to Make a Basket'
* * *
Look into the Derwent River | timtumili minanya outside this Museum and you'll see masses of these invasive Northern Pacific seastars. These seastars on the wall were collected from the river as a part of the ongoing removal effort.
They were first detected in 1986, have outcompeted indigenous species, are devastating the ecosystem and spreading up and down our eastern coastline.
They were first detected in 1986, have outcompeted indigenous species, are devastating the ecosystem and spreading up and down our eastern coastline.
Star Finder and Nautical Chart from the collection of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania.
... sea stars spreading
"Our ancestors are from the stars. They said every grain of sand here was once from a star."
From ' The Untold Tale of Tuteremoana ' ancient oral Maori stories.'
* * *
'Bilabang is a pool of water cut off from the river. Bilabang is also a name for the ‘Milky Way’.
From the Wiradjuri Dictionary Uncle Stan Grant and Aunty Flo Grant.
* * *
"... bila seeks the mangrove to clear the silt cycle
to move towards the sea
to dive into a world known as kin but always one hard to hold
to flow out and out to be reimagined as rain
and rejoin the lands of all rivers
of all stars
welcomed again into bilabang"
From - Bila, a river cycle. Jazz Money. 2021. 'How to Make a Basket'
* * *
"When I look at the night sky I'm reminded of something a Gamilaraay elder once told me – and that I know is echoed in many nations all across Australia – and that is – what is on the land is reflected in the sky and what is in the sky is reflected on the land. " KN
'In the dreaming a group of sky women danced as stars in the Milky Way. One of the women placed her baby in a wooden guliman as the women continued dancing the guliman fell and the baby plunged into the earth the force of the baby striking the ground drove these rocks upwards and this crater was created. … …..For the Arrernte the guliman and the baby are falling from the Milky Way – and that story still lives on today – you know – the parents searching for their child – the mother, the evening star and the father, the morning star 'AP
Aaron Pedersen & Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
Extracts from Back to Nature – episode 8: red earth heart. 2022
* * *
From ' The Untold Tale of Tuteremoana ' ancient oral Maori stories.'
* * *
'Bilabang is a pool of water cut off from the river. Bilabang is also a name for the ‘Milky Way’.
From the Wiradjuri Dictionary Uncle Stan Grant and Aunty Flo Grant.
* * *
"... bila seeks the mangrove to clear the silt cycle
to move towards the sea
to dive into a world known as kin but always one hard to hold
to flow out and out to be reimagined as rain
and rejoin the lands of all rivers
of all stars
welcomed again into bilabang"
From - Bila, a river cycle. Jazz Money. 2021. 'How to Make a Basket'
* * *
"When I look at the night sky I'm reminded of something a Gamilaraay elder once told me – and that I know is echoed in many nations all across Australia – and that is – what is on the land is reflected in the sky and what is in the sky is reflected on the land. " KN
'In the dreaming a group of sky women danced as stars in the Milky Way. One of the women placed her baby in a wooden guliman as the women continued dancing the guliman fell and the baby plunged into the earth the force of the baby striking the ground drove these rocks upwards and this crater was created. … …..For the Arrernte the guliman and the baby are falling from the Milky Way – and that story still lives on today – you know – the parents searching for their child – the mother, the evening star and the father, the morning star 'AP
Aaron Pedersen & Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
Extracts from Back to Nature – episode 8: red earth heart. 2022
* * *
Site specific installation
Materials: Invasive Northern Pacific seastars, Star Finder, Bernards' Nautical Star Chart, Earth Sky Reflections booklet, ABC news report.
Materials: Invasive Northern Pacific seastars, Star Finder, Bernards' Nautical Star Chart, Earth Sky Reflections booklet, ABC news report.
"When I look at the night sky I'm reminded of something a Gamilaraay elder once told me – and that I know is echoed in many nations all across Australia – and that is – what is on the land is reflected in the sky and what is in the sky is reflected on the land. " KN
'In the dreaming a group of sky women danced as stars in the Milky Way. One of the women placed her baby in a wooden guliman as the women continued dancing the guliman fell and the baby plunged into the earth the force of the baby striking the ground drove these rocks upwards and this crater was created. … …..For the Arrernte the guliman and the baby are falling from the Milky Way – and that story still lives on today – you know – the parents searching for their child – the mother, the evening star and the father, the morning star 'AP
Aaron Pedersen & Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
Extracts from Back to Nature – episode 8: red earth heart. 2022
* * *
-'Bilabang is a pool of water cut off from the river and it's also a name for the ‘Milky Way’.
From the Wiradjuri Dictionary Uncle Stan Grant and Aunty Flo Grant.
* * *
"Our ancestors are from the stars. They said every grain of sand here was once from a star."
From ' The Untold Tale of Tuteremoana ' ancient oral Maori stories.'
* * *
"... bila seeks the mangrove to clear the silt cycle
to move towards the sea
to dive into a world known as kin but always one hard to hold
to flow out and out to be reimagined as rain
and rejoin the lands of all rivers
of all stars
welcomed again into bilabang"
From - Bila, a river cycle. Jazz Money. 2021. 'How to Make a Basket'
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'In the dreaming a group of sky women danced as stars in the Milky Way. One of the women placed her baby in a wooden guliman as the women continued dancing the guliman fell and the baby plunged into the earth the force of the baby striking the ground drove these rocks upwards and this crater was created. … …..For the Arrernte the guliman and the baby are falling from the Milky Way – and that story still lives on today – you know – the parents searching for their child – the mother, the evening star and the father, the morning star 'AP
Aaron Pedersen & Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
Extracts from Back to Nature – episode 8: red earth heart. 2022
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-'Bilabang is a pool of water cut off from the river and it's also a name for the ‘Milky Way’.
From the Wiradjuri Dictionary Uncle Stan Grant and Aunty Flo Grant.
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"Our ancestors are from the stars. They said every grain of sand here was once from a star."
From ' The Untold Tale of Tuteremoana ' ancient oral Maori stories.'
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"... bila seeks the mangrove to clear the silt cycle
to move towards the sea
to dive into a world known as kin but always one hard to hold
to flow out and out to be reimagined as rain
and rejoin the lands of all rivers
of all stars
welcomed again into bilabang"
From - Bila, a river cycle. Jazz Money. 2021. 'How to Make a Basket'
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Look into the Derwent River | timtumili minanya outside this Museum and you'll see masses of these invasive Northern Pacific seastars. These seastars on the wall were collected from the river as a part of the ongoing removal effort.
They were first detected in 1986, have outcompeted indigenous species, are devastating the ecosystem and spreading up and down our eastern coastline.
They were first detected in 1986, have outcompeted indigenous species, are devastating the ecosystem and spreading up and down our eastern coastline.
Star Finder and Nautical Chart from the collection of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania.
... sea stars spreading
"Our ancestors are from the stars. They said every grain of sand here was once from a star."
From ' The Untold Tale of Tuteremoana ' ancient oral Maori stories.'
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'Bilabang is a pool of water cut off from the river. Bilabang is also a name for the ‘Milky Way’.
From the Wiradjuri Dictionary Uncle Stan Grant and Aunty Flo Grant.
* * *
"... bila seeks the mangrove to clear the silt cycle
to move towards the sea
to dive into a world known as kin but always one hard to hold
to flow out and out to be reimagined as rain
and rejoin the lands of all rivers
of all stars
welcomed again into bilabang"
From - Bila, a river cycle. Jazz Money. 2021. 'How to Make a Basket'
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"When I look at the night sky I'm reminded of something a Gamilaraay elder once told me – and that I know is echoed in many nations all across Australia – and that is – what is on the land is reflected in the sky and what is in the sky is reflected on the land. " KN
'In the dreaming a group of sky women danced as stars in the Milky Way. One of the women placed her baby in a wooden guliman as the women continued dancing the guliman fell and the baby plunged into the earth the force of the baby striking the ground drove these rocks upwards and this crater was created. … …..For the Arrernte the guliman and the baby are falling from the Milky Way – and that story still lives on today – you know – the parents searching for their child – the mother, the evening star and the father, the morning star 'AP
Aaron Pedersen & Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
Extracts from Back to Nature – episode 8: red earth heart. 2022
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From ' The Untold Tale of Tuteremoana ' ancient oral Maori stories.'
* * *
'Bilabang is a pool of water cut off from the river. Bilabang is also a name for the ‘Milky Way’.
From the Wiradjuri Dictionary Uncle Stan Grant and Aunty Flo Grant.
* * *
"... bila seeks the mangrove to clear the silt cycle
to move towards the sea
to dive into a world known as kin but always one hard to hold
to flow out and out to be reimagined as rain
and rejoin the lands of all rivers
of all stars
welcomed again into bilabang"
From - Bila, a river cycle. Jazz Money. 2021. 'How to Make a Basket'
* * *
"When I look at the night sky I'm reminded of something a Gamilaraay elder once told me – and that I know is echoed in many nations all across Australia – and that is – what is on the land is reflected in the sky and what is in the sky is reflected on the land. " KN
'In the dreaming a group of sky women danced as stars in the Milky Way. One of the women placed her baby in a wooden guliman as the women continued dancing the guliman fell and the baby plunged into the earth the force of the baby striking the ground drove these rocks upwards and this crater was created. … …..For the Arrernte the guliman and the baby are falling from the Milky Way – and that story still lives on today – you know – the parents searching for their child – the mother, the evening star and the father, the morning star 'AP
Aaron Pedersen & Karlie Noon (Gamilaraay woman & astrophysicist)
Extracts from Back to Nature – episode 8: red earth heart. 2022
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many thanks
The Maritime Museum of Tasmania especially:
Mark Hosking - Operations Manager, Maritime Museum of Tasmania
Camille Reynes - Curator, Maritime Museum of Tasmania
Emily Quintin - Marketing Manager, Maritime Museum of Tasmania
Chris Brown - photography
This site specific artwork was conceived for the embedded exhibition Reimagining the Ocean
@ Maritime Museum of Tasmania curated by Dr Llewellyn Negrin
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