The artwork wraps around four colossal, abandoned pipes serendipitously positioned in a gateway to Smiths Creek Reserve off Corunna Avenue. Developed in collaboration with preschoolers and First Nations young people from the Campbelltown community over a series of workshops, the work petitions traditional and ongoing Custodianship of Country.
Each of the four pillars features an animal local to the area, with local Dharawal translation and pronunciation:
- Yellow-tailed black cockatoo, Gang Gang cockatoo, sulphur-crested cockatoo (Gardai),
- Koala (Garilwa), which needs 40 football fields of space to live and flourish in the wild,
- Goanna (Jindoola), and
- Powerful Owl (Djunidjunudj), where there are only 500 pairs left on the east coast of Australia, and 3 of them live in Smiths Creek.
The background fills of each pillar were created by Leaping Learners using paint-filled water guns and rollers on sticks which sprayed and smashed the walls with copious amounts of paint, which the young ones were also covered head to toe in paint. Local Aboriginal high school students from Clontarf and Naasca painted the animals and plants.
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