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The Eyes Of The Land and The Sea is a piece that expresses ancient and modern Australia’s shared history by integrating the stories from the ship and the shore into a single artwork.

The first encounter between James Cook and the first Australians was a meeting of two very different knowledge systems, beliefs and cultures. To some people it will be the ship and to some the whale.

You can see all of the plants collected by Banks and Solander in those eight days that they were in Kamay, but they have the proper name, the Aboriginal name instead of the English name.

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