Boodjamooling Kaatadjin

Boodjamooling Kaatadjin intersects map-making, oral history, and textiles to explore the relationships between water sources, cultural sites, and the colonial markings of place. Throughout colonial restructuring of place in Western Australia, we see many of the water sources and cultural sites being covered up, filled in, or moved to make it more convenient for the colonial agenda to exist.

Boodjamooling is now known as Hyde Park. Now a well-loved meeting place for all, it has always been a main gathering, meeting and campground for the Whadjuk people. Boodjamooling Kaatadjin reminds us the visual landscape may change, but we, as people, and Country remember and will continue to use the site in its original intent.

Nidja Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar, yeyi, benang wer kalyakoorl.