About the Artist I am a Nyikina artist, student, and writer who works across illustration, print, stringmaking, video installation and set. My art explores First Nations memory, (dis)connection and freedom in urban, cyber and dreamscapes. I'm constantly inspired by ancestral and personal memories of the Kimberley, the industrial Northern suburbs of Naarm, queerness and family. The staunch women in my life are also eternal icons and heroes for me. As a Stolen Generations descendant, I'm often interrogating secrecy and hidden histories, and see my art as a form of healing and truthtelling. I currently reside on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land in Fawkner and study Drawing and Printmaking at UCA. I'm an ongoing participant in ILBIJERRI's Blackstage program and Melbourne Theatre Company's Deadly Creatives. I work at KHT as Front of House. About the Artwork This work is a screenprint of string I made from paper I slept on. Before I went on Country this year, I had a dream I was up there and made a fishing net. Waking up from this dream and going about my day made me think about this subconscious, perhaps distorted, false or ancestral memory. I decided to make a piece of string to reconcile my feelings of disconnection from Country and cultural practice. To me, stringmaking represents Continuum and potential. String can be as long as you like and woven into many forms. I decided to do a screenprint of this to form a 2-dimensional memory or imprint of this dream, and to metaphorically 'weave' the string into a new form on the page. I pay my respects to Kulin Nation custodians of string and netmaking practice, including Tiriki Onus who taught me how to make string, along with guidance from Rosa Flynn-Smith and Navida Scatman-Morgan in he making of this work.