Coastal Middens

In Dr Marjorie Sullivan’s thesis, “Coastal Middens on the South Coast of NSW” she surveys and maps all middens. These are summarised in a chart in the final pages of the thesis.

Each chart is a mass of numbers and letters, meaningless without the key. While each row starts with a map reference, they rapidly become harder to follow. I was fascinated that such a beautiful site could be summed up in numbers and letters, like a binary coding of a landscape.

Materials – Raw silk, hand-dyed cottons, foiled jersey, synthetic and cotton threads and wool batting.