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Rainbow Serpent Tracks at the EastLink operations centre
Aboriginal Artwork now on display.
The EastLink operations centre in Ringwood is the heart and soul of EastLink.
This is where the EastLink team is based - currently more than 200 people. Our corporate visitors come to meet us here. And customers attend our customer centre here.
That's why the EastLink operations centre is the perfect location for this new installation of Rainbow Serpent Tracks, by local Aboriginal Artist Simone Thomson.
Seeing Rainbow Serpent Tracks each time we arrive at the EastLink operations centre reminds everyone in the EastLink team that EastLink is part of a much larger landscape, which existed before EastLink was built, and which will continue long after we have gone.
Rainbow Serpent Tracks will help us maintain a sense of perspective, and ensure that we consider the bigger picture in our day to day operations.
Rainbow Serpent Tracks will be displayed at the EastLink operations centre for around three years. It will then be replaced by another Aboriginal Artwork.
Simone Thomson
Rainbow Serpent Tracks
Rainbow Snake's journey tracks across Country pushing the earth up with his belly, creating mountains and valleys in winding crevices.
Like the Rainbow Serpent's journey through the long and winding valleys, the EastLink tunnels burrow beneath the earth of the Mullum Mullum valley creating their own journey tracks ensuring Country and its surrounding wetlands stay protected, just as our ancestors have done for thousands of years.
About the Artist
Simone Thomson
Simone Thomson is a local Aboriginal Artist and is a Woi-Wurrung Wurundjeri and Yorta-Yorta Traditional Owner through her mother, and Irish/Scottish through her father.
Simone draws inspiration from the abundant textures and colours of this beautiful land along with the ancestral bonds she has to the Birrarung (Yarra River) and Dhungala (Murray River). Her people are river people, so she finds that waterways often interweave into her art along with dreaming and creation stories.