I love how ideas come in their own time and place when we’re prepared to receive them. So, while travelling around NSW this month I was reading Tyson Yunkaporta’s ‘Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking can Change the World’ (Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2019) and found a visualisation (pp.256-265) that invites readers to imagine the place they call home. I happened to have my laptop with me with the idea of categorising animation files I’ve been making (since 2007) that combine art and data freely shared by scientists and other artists around the world. (I’m building a free library of Antarctic animations.) As I read this I realised that my place is the waterways of the world, and that languages of art and science use the primal forms found in nature herself. I felt compelled to compile the animations in response to Tyson’s words.
