Reflective Statement

Throughout the process of curating map one: Disclosing the discord, I found that the layers of legalisation that are required for the management of water are vast and that the care and the health of the river systems and their tributaries become less of a priority the further out of the city matrix you get, however, the health of the systems themselves becomes worse the further you get into the city the matrix, disclosing the first opposite juncture of system resource management. What became apparent throughout this mapping is the power inequality of the resource and that although in antiquity, the river system and its self held meaning and personification to the traditional owners, the erasure of this knowledge and the alteration of its course started to quantify a once respected and understood system. This leads to the degradation of the flows, river health and its ability to self heal. The fact that in 2017 the river was classed as an entity in itself shows that the reapplication of what was once held is traditional knowledge. The erasure of such is more than just the ownership and quantification of a resource.