Research background
'The context of this work is my interest in writing about place and people in Australia in a way that acknowledges Indigenous presence and history. To research this, I visited Central Australia and read Indigenous and white writing. These journal notes come from a 1996 visit to the Pitjantjatjara community, Uluru. It questions how to record Pitjantjatjara life in a place that is both private (the community is closed) and sacred (a number of song lines converge on the Rock and areas around it) without transgression.'