2024 HFC Reconciliation Action Plan-LowRes - Flipbook - Page 38
Our RAP ARTWORK
The name of this art is Marreeparr Yarkeen Lerrpeen, Hawks Vision Song.
Tommy used his grandmother’s language, Kurrama, to name this piece.
The approach was to give the hawk more power, with an emphasis on the now and
looking to the future. It complements Hawthorn’s first reconciliation art, Tarrakuk, as
created by Tommy Day III in 2018. Using the same colour palette and complementary
style, both the Tarrakuk and Hawks Vision Song show reconciliation in action. The name
represents the story Hawthorn is telling and the song they’re singing. Hawthorn and its
communities connect to each other through song and country.
The difference from the Tarrakuk to this hawk is that it’s not floating and looking over country.
A hawk is swift and always in attack mode, with a great emphasis on its wings, as it
searches and moves, it’s not just in one place.
The wash of colour represents the last thing a hawk’s prey sees when being attacked.
The central route shows the song lines, it’s the journey of the hawk moving.
The zig zag pattern represents conversation. The players are the central voice in the
storytelling and their story revibrates out.
The many homes of the Hawthorn people all lead to the headquarters – where the club
currently calls home, Waverley Park – where everyone comes together.
The nesting areas across the whole of country show Hawthorn’s journey to all their national
touchpoints – from Melbourne, to Tasmania to Katherine, to Cairns, and everywhere in
between.
All the finelines are interconnecting, they don’t separate from each other and represent the
Hawthorn community, all the fans and families. They show the conversations and songs that
Hawthorn is supportive of mob.
