Yamatji Country. Video by Chris Lewis

The land is key to the formation, shape, and ecology of the Australian continent. The land works with and against water to shift river systems and ocean shorelines, meaning boundaries between the water and the land are never fixed, they are ever-changing throughout the years and the seasons. Scientists can study these active processes from many thousands of years ago.

I am shadow of you mob, art comes from the land, the song comes from the waterhole – see that pattern now? See, that is our footprint...we never change, we are the people...we (Yolŋu) are always here.

—Djambawa Marawili AM, Ceremonial leader of the Ma(d)arrpa of Northeast Arnhem Land