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Chris Tobin
Two Uncles meeting up again in the Sky Country
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Ochre on living tree
A photo of the installation at Old Government House, Parramatta
July 2025
This tree was painted up as a tribute to two of our dear Uncles who have passed recently and have returned home to the Sky Country. They are pictured surrounded by a sky full of stars representing the campfires of our ancestors
In traditional culture the sky was regarded as the Spirit world -often referred to as the Sky Country and where all the generations before and after us currently reside. It is where we are said to have come from, -and is to where we shall return.
In traditional culture the sky was regarded as the Spirit world -often referred to as the Sky Country and where all the generations before and after us currently reside. It is where we are said to have come from, -and is to where we shall return.
Chris Tobin is a Darug Elder, artist and educator living in the Blue Mountains
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