A footstep into New Guinea

When I returned to Brisbane’s GOMA modern art gallery a year later, every display was different. Most impressive to me were the New Guinea Asmat weavers. The weavers secretly created masks using ornaments to link their sculptures to a deceased person.

Place of hundreds of islands

Moreton Bay is home to more than three hundred islands. I returned to one of those islands, Russell to walk the land where my father’s banana farm had once been.

Loch Ard Disaster

In 1878, as Captain Gibb navigated his ship between Cape Otway and King Island with mist obscuring the passage, the Loch Ard was shipwrecked. Of the fifty-four passengers and crew, only two survived.