To make ngayirr (sacred), Nicole Foreshew buries each branch on her traditional country in places that are rich with salts and minerals. She then nurtures a process which would occur naturally at a smaller scale, watering the branches — just as we would water a plant — to encourage crystals to form beneath the ground. Over years, pink and ochre crystals build up upon the wood, which Foreshew then carefully removes from the ground.

The five small bundles, Remain with me, were also planted in the earth. We are not told what they contain. Minerals stain the cloth and string, leaving a fluid imprint of the land on the fabric. Foreshew sees these branches and bundles as akin to our own bodies, like limbs stretching into the soil. Drawing out this comparison, she frames the earth as a living entity that must be watered and nourished: ‘I think it is important to grow what you can, to resurrect what has been taken. To grow, to resurrect, these things come from Ngurambang — our human relation to the earth.’