PAUL BONG | 'Where is our culture?' | 2019 | Mezzotint | Black and white PORMPURAAW I feature the totems of

I feature the totems of my family within my artwork

Our dishes are made for special gatherings like weddings

Today we still keep to these laws

the men in the canoe would follow the rope

PAUL BONG | 'Where is our culture?' | 2019 | Mezzotint | Black and white PORMPURAAW I feature the totems ofBorn: 1963 Language: Yidiny Region: Yidinji Paul Bong (aka Bindur Bullin), is a descendant of the Yidinji tribe who occupied the fertile rainforest lands from Cairns in the north to Babinda in the south and west into the Atherton Tablelands as far as Kairi. His ancestral history is rooted in this region. Bong's great grandparents were both tribal elders, when all the lands were Yidinji. His father, George, also knew the traditional ways of living. He