Biting the Clouds Japan The chosen trees have all

The chosen trees have all had a profound effect on the planet and humankind

He represented Australia at an early Venice Biennale and was a major figure in the Mildura Sculpture Triennials

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Biting the Clouds Japan The chosen trees have allIn this groundbreaking work of Indigenous scholarship, nationally renowned visual artist Fiona Foley addresses the inherent silences, errors and injustices from the perspective of her people, the Badtjala of Kgari (Fraser Island). She shines a critical light on the little known colonial era practice of paying Indigenous workers in opium and the solution of then displacing them to Kgari. Biting the Clouds a euphemism for being stoned on opium combines