Wan dharridji balert gumakkulin biik is a photographic series that captures the artist standing with strength and resistance within a colonial setting. Draping his body Iluka bears his possum skin vest, with elegant burnt patterns of his designs and rich red ochre spreading over the possum skins.The handcrafted design depicts the great connection between land and water. In English, Wan dharridji balert gumak kulinbiik translates to I stand strong on Kulin land, and this series is an honouring of Kulin defiance in the face of colonisation.His presence in this space an act of disruption. At first glance, one may believe that he, nor the ancestors before him, were ever welcomed in. In which structures of wealth, luxury, and privilege were built by the bloodshed and exploitation of Indigenous peoples both past and present.