these words will remain (2021)
Construction mesh installed upon the Fremantle Traffic Bridge
Dimensions variable
Text: Jazz Money
Noongar translations: Aunty Sandra Harben
Graphic design: Jenna Lee
Site responsive work commissioned for Fremantle Biennale 2021 Crossings

Strung across the wooden pillars of Fremantle’s iconic old bridge will be these words will remain by Wiradjuri poet Jazz Money. In both English and Nyoongar the large-scale text piece invites audiences to consider the strength and beauty of these sovereign Whadjuk waterways. A declaration, a protest, a love song, these words will remain is an ode to what our rivers remember and tell, their care and their power. Despite violent colonial intervention rivers remain sacred currents placed by ancestors with cause of course.