![]() While looking around Pitta Pitta via the street view function, I began noticing the inaccuracy of the technology. In response to COVID travel restrictions, I decided to go to Pitta Pitta “virtually” via Google Earth. These experiences heavily inform my practice and research.ĭrawing data: I make art from the bodily experience of long-distance running Like many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, my understanding of self is scarred by the atrocities my family have experienced due to colonisation. I grew up on Wadawurrung Country, an hour south from Naarm (Melbourne), and have lived in Victoria my whole life. Jahkarli Romanis, Author provided (no reuse) Pitta Pitta (So called terra nullius), 2020, from series (Dis)connected to Country. My understanding of this landscape is informed by oral history, and my relationship to it is shaped by my distance from it. My maternal great-grandmother Dolly Creed was stolen from Country as a young child and my family has been dislocated since. ![]() Pitta Pitta is located in western Queensland, 300 kilometres south of Mount Isa. Due to the pandemic, travel to Pitta Pitta Country was prohibited, therefore making it impossible for me to create photographs of Country for my project. ![]() My artistic exploration of western maps began during my honours year in 2020 and has since become a key part of my PhD research. ![]() However, these technologies carry a rarely acknowledged subjective and colonial agenda towards representing place. In the last 20 years, approaches to map creation have become much more reliant on photographic and digital technologies, including Google Earth. Map making has always been shaped by our social and cultural relationships to the land. Within western society, maps are often perceived as scientific, neutral and objective tools. ![]()
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