Peter Harlow, Toluncan Fissura (SEASCAPE 2023)

‘Toluncan’ is the indigenous Boonwurrung name for Anderson Inlet, an area of everchanging tidal mudflats, fed from the east by the Tarwin River, exiting to Bass Strait in the west near Inverloch on the Victorian coast. It was here that the first dinosaur bones were discovered in Australia. Views from the sky often reveal otherwise unseen colours and patterns and from a viewpoint of only fifty metres above the surface, you can enter a world of almost dreamlike images. On an early morning in July 2022, the tide was out, revealing a series of mesmerising patterns of blue water, brown shallows and sand ripples, forming unique images which changed forever with the incoming tide. The Bunurong people have occupied this area for tens of thousands of years and I think about how the patterns they may have seen, even so long ago, were also unique.

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