A natural pearl begins to form whenever a foreign object - no matter how small - comes to rest in a mollusc's mother-of-pearl. The host begins coating the foreigner with layers of the substance which previously made the mother-of-pearl itself... Bravely resting as a foreigner in the 'mother-of-pearl' of other cultures, Maria Rosa experienced the changing of inner and outer landscapes. Life among First Nations Australians in remote and very...