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This work acknowledges the 400 million-year-old sandstone strata
that lie under the central Melbourne plaza. Fiona Clarke was commissioned
to collaborate with an artwork within the sculpture. Using a chisel,
she carved symbols relating to an eel trap and inspired by one
of her Gunditjmara ancestral possum-skin cloaks into the surface
of one of the stone slabs. This is acknowledging the indigenous
people. While the possum-skin cloaks were stitched with sinews
from the kangaroo tail, all the stones of the sculpture are stitched
together with stainless steel cable.
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