Ialolloi Max

I was born in and grew up in Papua New Guinea with no one single culture, language or way of being—there were many. PNG is a land of languages, custom and ritual. My mother is mixed New Guinean and Chinese and my father is mixed German and Welsh. It wasn’t until my teenage years when I visited Australia that I learned of the notion of “the” way to be or there being “one” societal way. Various creative art forms allow me to question and continue to live with many languages, cultures and ways of behaviour.

It was already dead; the fish was fighting the inevitable. Maybe it was impulse, some animal instinct will to live.