Clara Crocodile. The idea.

I was sitting on the couch in our yellow brick house in the tropical suburbs of Darwin, watching my newborn son sleep. I was mesmerised by those shallow breaths and felt consumed by a fog of newborn love and sleep deprivation. It was in this moment that a thought crawled into the back of mind, 'what now?’ That question haunted me and I knew I needed to create… something…

It was in this fog that the idea of a crocodile leaving her home in the Top End of Australia to move to the red centre came to me. As the story began to unfold in my mind so did the ways in which I could tell it. I started having visions of how I wanted the story to sound, look, feel, be interacted with and it was becoming larger and larger and really an unrealistic project. Like most creative processes, there was a draft and then another draft that was then redrafted and redrafted until I held something in my hand that was realistically manageable.

I would tell a story through song - I would create a musical album for the whole family that showcased different musicians from Central Australia.

My son Luka wearing the first crocodile I created

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