Colleen Gray

Tree Line Thaw (framed)

Art story: The ancient stones of the Great Northern Shield have seen endless freezing and countless thaws. The stones keep the stories of travellers and bear the scars of an ever-moving wind. The trickle of ancestral waters carries the echoes of ancient incantations. They hold the secrets of birthed babies, bone rattles and ceremonial markings made by nomads who have given their lives and bodies to the land. Bones and stones, water and life become one with the land, just as we all must become one with the land.