Now and Then, 2001
lomandra, cowries, rock
private collection

This work is about multi generational cycles of life. It physically
comprises a strand of twined lomandra plant into which is twined
in rhythmic progression cowries shells found upon a beach in
north eastern Tasmania. These cowries are strung in a sequence
from white to dark brown. The strand forms a necklace that hangs
upon a rock lying flush against a wall. Now and then refers to us
Tasmanian Aboriginal people, now and then, today and two
hundred years ago, now white on the outside, then we were
a dark brown, so the work is a kind of literal translation to
suggest that we are the same (cowries) on the inside and have
only changed on the outside.