The inspiration for this artwork was provided by the place where I live; Franklinford in central Victoria. The fact that Franklinford was the site of an Aboriginal Protectorate in the 1840s profoundly affected my response to the landscape. Within close walking distance from where I live is the local cemetery, which was originally the Protectorate cemetery. At this site are an unknown number of unmarked Aboriginal graves, and a prominent memorial to the Protector of the Aborigines, Edward Stone Parker. Also within the Franklinford landscape are memorials dedicated to the Protectorate, which were erected in 1965 to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of Parker's death.

On these memorials are contained the words, sacred , sanctuary and the Aboriginal place name Larnebarramul : home of the emu. These words provide conflicting meanings, enabling me to question preconceived Eurocentric notions, that have been imprinted onto an Indigenous landscape. Rather than occupying the land, a sense of belonging could be achieved by listening to the land for the stories it has to tell.