PAUL BONG | 'Conspiracy of Skeleton Creek (Blue)' | 2026 | Hand coloured intaglio etching | H 770 x W 530 mm Brassy Copper glazes

Copper glazes

Paper size: 570 x 770mm

it was rotted severely and buried in the mud

they can be very soft images

I own this country and this country owns me

PAUL BONG | 'Conspiracy of Skeleton Creek (Blue)' | 2026 | Hand coloured intaglio etching | H 770 x W 530 mm Brassy Copper glazesThe Conspiracy of Skeleton Creek is a meditation on truth, loss and the endurance of memory, and an act of remembrance. The work explores ancestry, the echoes of history and the stories carried by those who remain connected to Country. The work refers to the places known as Skeleton Creek and Skull Pocket in Far North Queensland, places held within Aboriginal family memory as sites of profound suffering and loss; part of a living inheritance connected