My Dharug family are custodians,  Ngurrawa Marringong (or Muringong) meaning being in a Country with many waterholes connecting Georges and Nepean Rivers, in the southwest Sydney basin.

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The following images present an intervention of early colonial graphic archives depicting Muringong Ngurra (Country). A "Map of the Cowpastures: Where the Wild Herds Were Found" (1795), was produced after Crown explorers and botanists found a cave painting of the lost cattle herds brought onto our Country with the the first English fleets. 

 

A map was made by a Crown appointed botanist George Caley.  In this creative intervention I reveal a formation of grasses and small trees marked as the letter E., thus named a "green dingle," a Dharug intervention finds a sign of our ancestral cultural practice now known as "cool burning." The practice is highly significant, used to care for country. For example, cultivating areas for growing and or seasonal herding of animals for food , material culture and more.