Walking the Language of Landscape
Amber Cronin, Jack Buckskin and Tom Borgas. 2024
Indigenous author, activist and botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer says that to be native to a place we must first learn to speak its language.
Language is the heart of culture. It holds the thoughts and ways of seeing the world. Working in partnership with Kaurna Linguist, Jack Buckskin, Walking the Language of Landscape is a series of text artworks integrated into the mixed-use path on the eastern side of Hutt Road that publicly celebrate Kaurna language. The font used in the artwork has been developed from archival excerpts and records from the first missionary schools at Piltawodli. These letters create a narrative deeply rooted in the history of this place. The distributed letters draw a response from (and to) Country creating a site-responsive work that echoes past, current and future voices of Hutt Road.
