Love Rocks #727-21

“On my Country Bentinck Island there are love charms and we call them love rocks. Always the young people would go looking so they could catch a partner. With them love rocks they will have a partner for life if they call out their name while holding and calling out their name. We tell them don’t go doing it too much otherwise they get sick or the other person would get sick. We tell people, especially the young ones, to be careful not to take anything that they don’t know about from another person’s Country without first asking them.”

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'I was born soon after my people crossed over to Mornington Island. In those days the Lardil mob foster or adopt us as their family. The Jacobs' adopted me and my sister Gay. In the 60s I was sent out to work on the mainland. I worked at Julia Creek. As I raised my family, I also adopted a few more children. Now I am surrounded by my family. "I use to muck around scribbling, drawing little houses with my kids. My children tell me to join the old people here at the Art Centre, save me from worrying, take my mind off things. It's also good to be alongside family members at the Art Centre working, creating and learning together."