Spirit Mortuum

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Spirit Mortuum is an homage to Auntie Edgar, whose remains lie buried in this place at Stanthorpe, Queensland. An Aboriginal woman of the stolen generation, she lies in a landscape drenched with symbols of her country and her life.

Tree trunks transform into hollow log coffins, rocks vibrate with symbols of consequence and waterholes, and residing over all, the circular form of "caput mortuum", designator of remains.