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The idea for this work came from a conversation with Aunty Alma in 2002 when we were both sitting on plastic milk crates in O'Donnell Gardens. I remarked what good seats they were but she said she often had to hunt around to find one. I suggested that we could turn them into bronze and put them in permanently.
After that, every time I saw Aunty Alma she would say, 'You got to do that, babe. Put it in bronze.' I was already hunting for money when she died in April 2003, so I felt even more compelled to make at least one seat for her. She was a queen of the park. When another well-known Elder, 'Boom Boom' Forbes died the next year, everyone said Aunty Alma would get lonely just being honoured with one crate so I madly scabbled around for enough money to make three crates. The third is for the living. |
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Funded by City of Port Phillip Cultural Development Fund and Port Phillip Citizens for Reconciliation |
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