MALKI STUDIO | ‘Golden Threads (M2)’ | Fine white clay / copper glaze Palm Cove It is used in all

It is used in all of my work and contains my totem – the crocodile

We find shells buried in the sand

FIONA ELISALA | 'Akana Nagu' | 2016 | Etching | Edition of 10

and copper hues

I am a Thaayorre women my totem is the emu and black duck

MALKI STUDIO | ‘Golden Threads (M2)’ | Fine white clay / copper glaze Palm Cove It is used in allFine white clay is impressed with intricate, filigree like patternsdelicate markings that echo memory and time, each vessel then shaped in a mould by the makers hand. The process mirrors the gathering of knowledge and experience across a lifetime: layer by layer, imprint by imprint. These vessels become carriers of that ideaembellished with fine marks that speak of complexity, vulnerability, and resilience. They bear marking and scarstraces of joy and