TITLE: TIME TALKER
LOCATION: DOCKLANDS,
COMMISSSION: Home @homeapartmentsau
CURATORS: Craft @craftvictoria
PHOTOGRAPHY: by Claire Armstrong @claires_arms

Time talker is a sculptural stack of Blue Mussel shells arranged into a humanlike totemic figure. This gleaming iridescent shell figure speaks of a time when Melbourne was wild and the docklands area encompassed the extensive wetlands ecosystem of the Birrarang (Yarra Delta). The Wurundjeri people ate mussels and other shellfish here producing middens over thousands of years. Mussels have existed virtually unchanged for 245 million years, they filter the water and their presence attest to the waters health. The Time Talker stands tall, its gleaming iridescent shells form proclaims the timeless beauty and resilience of bivalves and other marine creatures. Inside the top shell we see spiral crustacea making its home within the mussel shells, this little creature symbolises the hope and resilience of creatures living symbiotically within the marine ecosystem.