The very unassuming exterior of The Wall, Derwent Bridge, Tasmania. Rightly so, Greg Duncan forbids photography of his works. Here’s The Wall website: http://thewalltasmania.com.au/

The Sistine Chapel, The Louvre, The Met, The Wall.  Of these, The Wall by Greg Duncan in Derwent Bridge, Tasmania, spoke to me the loudest.  When I visited The Wall earlier this month I was awe-struck by its majesty, Duncan’s craftmanship and the fact that it is literally history in the making.  It is a work in progress; when it is finished it will be 100 metres of 3-metre high carved wooden panels telling the history of Tassie’s Central Highlands.

The first panel is the most gripping.  It shows “Simple footprints.  The hunter becomes the hunted”; many bare footprints and one boot print, depicting the arrival of the British settlers in the 1800s.  Duncan explains that his original plan was to cover eight panels with this part of the story, but when he was unable to get any input from the indigenous community, he kept it to just one panel.  Duncan writes, “I think that was meant to be, as they are the ones that should be telling the story – not me.”

You should be the one to tell your story.