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| Though this website is posted in cyberspace, I stand in a land that was taken without following due process. (Some self-defensive people will say that the indigenous people must have done some taking originally but it would probably have been by a
different process.) Captain Cook was instructed to ‘.....with the consent of the natives ... take possession of
convenient situations in the name of the King of Great Britain’. In the case of what has been called as Australia, no permission was sought nor given. I am a
transdigenous artist working in a construction called Australia** and I acknowledge the
traditional owners of this land. I work in a spirit of friendship towards the original inhabitants and towards transdigenious people who are journeying to greater positions of empathy with our past and towards those who may have not yet started that journey. I hope that, one day, the government of Australia will develop to giving just recognition to
the various peoples who posessed this land with dignity and with greater responsiveness to the fragile environment than current powers exercise. The above artwork is dedicated to the lives of original inhabitants who were lost and ‘swept
under the carpet’. Continue the journey to view art by Alan Tulloch (Enter Site) .... |
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| **Talking about a ‘construction called Australia’ may seem
very unpatriotic to many but I do watch the cricket and I follow the progress of ‘our
side’ (amongst other ‘Aussie’ things). It is just that there are many unresolved issues
about national identity that need to be seen in the context of global justice, amongst
other things. Watch this space for continuing thoughts.... |
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