This art­work was cre­at­ed to pay homage to its past and present inhab­i­tants, with empha­sis on the Afghan and Indi­an cameleers, the ear­ly Euro­pean pio­neers and set­tlers and the Arrernte peo­ple on whose land Alice Springs is sit­u­at­ed. Dur­ing the cre­ation of the sculp­tur­al instal­la­tion, lead artist Julie Squires col­lab­o­rat­ed with Indige­nous artists from Yuen­du­mu, Ti Tree, San­ta Tere­sa, Amoongu­na, Papun­ya, Titi­jikala, Her­manns­burg and Alice Springs. The land on which the Civic Cen­tre stands is the locale for cul­tur­al­ly diverse mem­o­ries includ­ing Alice Springs’ once main Ghan­town, its first mosque, its first fire brigade and the res­i­dence of hor­ti­cul­tur­al­ist and anthro­pol­o­gist, Miss Muriel Olive Pink. The Indige­nous artists who also worked on the art­work were Mar­cia Alice, April Camp­bell, Emma Daniels, Marie Ele­na Ellis, Roseanne Ellis, Tina Mal­bun­ka, Michael Nel­son, Thomas Rice, June Smith and MK Turner.