Greetings from the Far East (Flaneur) on Gunaikurnai Country – where we have been walking, biking and kayaking our way through lakes, seaweed-like tentacles re-emerged from receded lakes, forests and floodplains – mapping this part of the world with our feet, our hands, our eyes, our noses and very much our taste buds.
Met local other forms of artists and architects (see Flaneur cabin from Green Studios and even ones staying on FLOAT’s artist-in-residence (who was using sounds from an underwater hydrophone to make her prints to?! which we even took a boat out to see...
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Our minds were expanded again and again through conversation and imagination, our hearts with our travelling community and our capacity to do hard things that made us smile (i.e. dawn 20km kayak in the rain – how beautiful? How cold? – wasn’t too bad).
Andrea and co from @float.3909 and the wonderful surrounding community of East Gippsland weaved an itinerary that many apparently quoted as being ‘mad’ – and did so in a way that inspired us to see what communities can do when they band together and make epic things happen.
I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands on which I mostly live, work and play - the Wurundjeri Woiwurrung people of the Kulin Nation and the Brayakaulung people of the Gunaikurnai Nation, where I grew up and return to often. I pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging, and recognise their continued connection to Country and culture, and as the first and most enduring storytellers of these lands. Sovereignty was never ceded. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.