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Image Description: Large boulders of rocks in the creek, with water flowing around it, and with bright green moss covering it, centers the focus of the photograph. Branches shrouding the environment, forest green shrubs and leaves, and more boulders of moss covered rocks are in the background, blurry, and vibrant.
"The most important thing I have learnt in healing is creating a space for your joy to exist - because it deserves a space to exist.”
- Eman Ezekiel Aboobakur
Title: Kandoofaa (‘mangrove forest’ in Dhivehi)
Artist: Eman Ezekiel Aboobakur (@ExtractsByEman)
Artist’s statement:
“Kandoo is a specific kind of mangrove referring to a small-leafed orange mangrove. Kandoofaa refers to a mangrove forest. From memory, I recall the mangrove forest in my mother’s island (Kumundhoo) being referred to as a Kandoofaa, and this photograph of the creek took me to memories I have with Kumundhoo, and of that particular Kandoofaa.
This picture was photographed at Lane Cove National Park. This particular creek in the photograph is Devlin’s Creek. I believe it’s connected to the Lane Cove River and the Aboriginal Place name for the river is Turrumburra, from research.”