PAULA SAVAGE - Moa Arts | 'Cutting Wapudth Trees 1' | 2023 | Monoprint on BFK Rives paper bu bu tides Hayes undertakes a meditative act

Hayes undertakes a meditative act of construction within each piece

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and his work was featured on the running track of the 2018 Commonwealth Games

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Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria

PAULA SAVAGE - Moa Arts | 'Cutting Wapudth Trees 1' | 2023 | Monoprint on BFK Rives paper bu bu tides Hayes undertakes a meditative act"This trees is a red cotton type of tree when we cutting up this partcular wapudth tree for carving in which we can make a wood carved model of little pealing boats from back in the day and then we prep the wood up for the boat which we can test if the wood floats In water is very useful wapudth need to be dyed to be carved the red flowers show in the cotton from the seed." Paula Savage PAULA SAVAGE is from the Dabugal clan of Moa Island and the