Ngalamba 2023
Commissioned by the Mornington Peninsula Shire, in consultation with Bunuroung elders.
Location: Napier Street, Rye
Materials: Stainless steel
Both schematic and organic, the sculpture celebrates the local Bunurong people’s connection to country.
Inspired by the life cyle of the leptospermum laevigatum – the coast tea tree, an indigenous species of the sand belt region.
From seed and sapling, to its fully grown twisted, knotted and sinuous limbs and later the polished driftwood, amorphic and grey.
Nods to the rise and fall of the moon in the sky as the season’s pass and traditional milestones during the year – fire, long days and eels in summer, snapper in November, rain and long nights in deep winter.
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