for it will be no more

Monuments to 18th- and 19th-century British explorers, colonial figures, and royalty appear within shifting triangular shards, superimposed over images of Australia’s Botany Bay and the adjoining South Pacific Ocean, framed by the northern and southern headlands.

On 29 April 1770, British naval lieutenant James Cook and his crew landed at Kurnell, on the southern shores of Botany Bay, as they charted the east coast of Australia aboard the HMS Endeavour. Their arrival was met with resistance from two Aboriginal men of the Gweagal clan, part of the Dharawal people. Cook later claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain under the doctrine of terra nullius—'land belonging to no one.'

“Horror. Horror has a face… and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies.” — Marlon Brando / Colonel Kurtz, Apocalypse Now