Landscape and Memory"
Adam Rish and Queenie McKenzie
Turkey Creek, April 1996, 80 X 50cm, ochre on linen

These hills are the Barramundi dreaming site, near Turkey Creek, where the Argyle diamond mine is found.
Even though this is several hundred kilometres inland these large fish are found in small rivers during the wet season.
According to Queenie the scales from the fish formed the diamonds. There is a small black dot where two boys
crept up and watched a taboo ceremony and were put in a hole in the ground and died.
This visual narrative I have put into Western terms hence the book - with eyes as we see via writing - and the pen.
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