Kado & Deeva Muir
Reti 2018

MURAL LOCATION
Kalgoorlie Police Station
67 Brookman St, Kalgoorlie

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“The scenery in this mural represents the sand dunes of the Great Victoria desert with movement of sand, tracks in the sand with the strong vibrant colours of the desert, blue sky, yellow dry spinifex, red sand with bursts of the Sturt Desert pea flowers. This scene depicts an important cultural place for Kado, called Reti. He first visited this place as a baby with his parents. Named “Empress Springs” and described by explorer David Carnegie in his book “Spinifex and Sands”, there were three large mulga trees standing on the sand dune adjacent the spring entrance in 1896. When Kado’s parents “rediscovered” Empress Springs in the 1970’s two of this trees were still standing 80 years later. The imagery in the mural unites Kado and Deeva's family as the galah, the Karlkula root, dingo and emu tracks each represent the dreaming and totem of Kado and their three children.

Today Kado is the lead applicant in a native title claim to have the country in which Empress Springs or Reti (traditional Aboriginal name) recognised as native title land.”