The memories of healing in the waves, memories of throwing sands lightly as the waters wash back out into the ocean. Connecting us across the lands, our Songlines, our Culture, our Spirits, our Humanity.

My totem is water: we are the carers for everything, always respectfully acknowledging those who come before us and who will be here long after we are gone.

We follow our Djinda's in the night sky's for stories and connections to those who are no longer here.

We are but a museum of beautiful healing culture, as long as our hearts are open.

The footprints along the sands near our oceans from Cottesloe, Sorrento beaches to Mullaloo.

Sharing cultures together, our social responsibility of caring for Koorda's, of respectfully leaving behind footprints we can all feel proud of for generations to come.

Staying connected to our country is healing our old peoples, who walked along these waters from long ago, from our Rivers along the Swan to our oceans across to lakes of Joonalup and afar.

We carry our stories with pride and dignity, many books could never have the spine to carry.

Nan called me the cloud watcher, watchng clouds move across the open skies with so many stories declared. We are the answer, our first world teachers, scientists and innovators from long ago. We laugh, we cry, we play, we heal, along our waters.


About the Artist: Sharon Wood-Kenney is a proud Noongar Yamatji Yorga with family ties across Western Australia. Sharon has been honoured with hearing her old people's stories since she was a little girl. Honouring story telling in song, dance, ceremony, lore, arts and painting are ways of finding our belonging. She helps to bring bidi (journeys) Koorliny (together) by designing and using a range of mediums including acrylics, paperbarks, wood engravings, ochre and other unique materials.

Her favourite pass times include walking along the waterways, being creative through drawing and writing poetry, djinda gazing, spending time with and caring for our old people, family, country and friends.