Walangala, 2020
Perforated Concrete and native swamp reeds. Dimensions Variable.
Courtesy of the Artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane
Photography courtesy of Contour 556
Walangala
Walangala meaning Longwater in the artists’s mother tongue Jandai, is a work to highlight the current toxic relationship between concrete and water.
A tenth of the world's industrial water sources are depleted by the cement industry, with ¾’s of of that extraction occurring from water stressed environments.
Long water, swamp country, filled in by the expanding colonial project; rendering the earth infertile. Increasing the speed of water flows when it travels across the land - no longer flowing, pooling and seeping into the ancient aquifers and natural depressions.
Presented at Contour 556, Canberra Art Biennial, 2020; ACT.
Photographs courtesy of Contour 556.
