Light Installation
Melbourne, Australia
Yarra
History is in the fabric of the city. While the colonial monuments are set in stone, the history of the First Nations people is in the natural fabric, the landscape.
The scarred Red Gum trees near the Melbourne Cricket Ground are cultural heritage, traces of the Warundjeri people of the Kulin Nation: huge shapes of bark were cut and removed to make canoes. The scarred trees stand unnoticed and unprotected; this significant heritage is neglected and undervalued.
The work shares this First Nations heritage. The stories – the removed bark, its path as vessels along the Yarra River – are re-traced. Light boxes with photographs, origami and paper cut-out are a new ephemeral communication of this valuable heritage.
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Vanessa Carnevale Architect 