Wandering with Intent by Kim Mahood

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Type
Paperback
Author
Dimensions
233mm x 152mm
Weight
0.380
ISBN
9781925713251
Published
November 1, 2022
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Number of Pages
272
Stock
In stock
About

To essay means to try, to endeavour, to attempt - and to risk failure. For Kim Mahood, it is both a form of writing and an approach to life.

In these finely observed and probing essays, award-winning artist and writer Kim Mahood invites us to accompany her on the road and into the remote places of Australia where she is engaged in long-established collaborations of mapping, storytelling, and placemaking. Celebrated as one of the few Australian writers who both lives within and can articulate the complexities and tensions that arise in the spaces between Aboriginal and settler Australia, Mahood writes passionately and eloquently about the things that capture her senses and demand her attention - art, country, people, and writing.

Her lyrical evocation of desert landscapes and tender, wry observations of cross-cultural relationships describe people, places, and ways of living that are familiar to her but still strange to most non-Indigenous Australians. At once a testament to personal freedom and a powerful argument for Indigenous self-determination, Wandering with Intent demonstrates, with candour, humour, and hope, how necessary and precious it is for each of us to choose how to live.

Kim Mahood

Author

Kim Mahood

Kim Mahood is a writer and artist who grew up in Central Australia and
on Tanami Downs Station. She has worked closely with Aboriginal people
across Australia’s desert regions, maintains strong connections with
Warlpiri and Walmajarri people, and has extensive experience in cultural
and environmental mapping projects in the Tanami and Great Sandy
Desert, western New South Wales, the Top End, Perth, and Fremantle, and
the Great Victoria Desert. She is the author of two previous non-fiction
books: Craft for a Dry Lake (2000) and Position Doubtful (2016, and the co-editor of Desert Lake: art, science and stories from Paruku (2013). Her work has received numerous awards, and is published in literary, art, and current affairs journals.

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