The Marrambidya (Murrumbidgee River) is my home. Wiradjuri people are river people, and it is the Marrambidya that holds my cultural legacy and responsibility. These aerial photographs, taken by the NSW government in 1960 as part of agricultural surveys, depict the river’s flow near Narrandera where my paternal grandmother is from. These black and white archival images, with their navigational data visible, show the carving and cleaving of our fertile homelands for agricultural occupation, where once vast and abundant forest and grassland cling only to the edges of farmland, if at all. UV printed on brushed aluminium, the ACM material is the same as street signs and other government regulated navigational tools, used to evoke the industrialised imposition forced upon this Country. The poetry literally cut from the metal materially speaks to the absence of sovereignty and autonomy for Wiradjuri people within the archival images. While the text itself is an ode to the elegant persistence of the Marrambidya and to its people. In colonial imaginings we exist only in what is missing. Our absence fills the image with imaginings of what once was. And yet, our presence is held within the land to eternity. —Jazz Money