“I have lived on or in proximity to Ngunnawal country most of my life, but I know that I will never have the detailed knowledge born of a culture that has lived in communion with land in the way our first custodians did. It is with this awareness that I acknowledge elders past, present and emerging on Ngunnawal country.” Jenny Bell.
At Gina Mobayed’s urging, Jenny Bell and I met over strong coffee and Philip Hodgins’ poetry, in her studio at “Bohara,” the Bell-Edwards’ family property near Breadalbane on the New South Wales southern tablelands. Hodgins’ invocation in his poem , 1991, begins, “Approach it as you would a work of art,” a prescient introduction. This prosaic homily to the proverbial is a meditation on transition, a theme that emerges in artist/regenerative farmer
