Unlocking Connection to Place

Recently, following a conversation in one of my favourite online groups, I felt a key turn in a lock. An old lock, with a heavy brass bolt, with an oval head of pressed metal on the key shaft and a tab with specified contour and profile on the far end, so as to marry the internal mechanism with a positive spring-loaded rotation to the hand, and a satisfying “klak” releasing the bolt. As the door swings open, key, lock, door and entire enclosure dissolve into thin air, revealing what I knew all along. At least that’s how I dreamt it.

What is it that obscures our vision up to the moment of seeing, and after, realising we knew it of old? A deep remembering, a restorative process, to which I say, “I know you. I lost you and now have found you again. I’ve always known you and now I know you name. You are me! Hello there!”

We are not merely connected to this Earth. We emerge from it and are part of it. We are but one facet of the story that belongs to our place of origin. What springs to mind, like the second half-turn of the spring loaded lock that completes it’s own rotation, is an image from a book I encountered doing my Masters in Social Ecology; a book entitled “Yorro Yorro, Original Creation and the renewal of Nature” by David Mowaljarlai”, or in the vernacular - “Everything Standing Up Alive”. Are not we each, one of the many fruits of this bountiful Earth, standing up alive?

I remember as yesterday, countless campfire breakfast conversations with old men of the bush, about the delight of living the life of a free person on country, what it truly means to be a human being on this planet, knowing our purpose and the intent with which we carry it forward. I am remembering traveling across country along the track of countless ancestors and relatives, old men in the back seat, singing songs of country as our movement redraws those lines, like a finger in the red dirt connecting tjukula, rock pools and water bearing crevices first drawn by Wanampi, the two brother sister quatrain ancestor, the great rainbow serpent, the water snake, and at once, the moist, cooling mists moving across the morning mountain ridges and sand hills, refreshing, replenishing, remembering, and the flash of day break.

Nuvue Studios Approach to Creating 360 Immersive Experiences

Creating experiences and memories of places partner person with place, and in so doing reminds us who we are and how we came to be who we are, contrary to the acquired habit of giving a place a name, and in that nominalisation reduce it to a resource to be exploited for exclusive personal gain. For there is an older memory, one where we and all that is, are but dust of the earth, formed and life breathed in. It is so easy to believe that the dust is the thing, and yes but no, it is life-breath that is the thing.

So it is with Nuvue Studios, the 360 immersive experiences business start-up where we the share delight of elucidating stories of place, stories evoked by location. Unlike a movie or documentary, 360º storytelling isn't linear but calls on the viewer whether on PC, mobile or VR headset, to explore and find its hidden treasures and the stories that bind them together. Contact us to find out how this can work for you leisure, culture or learning enterprise.