SOUL DEEP
“I feel like being an aboriginal with a disability is a tough road on both paths where I’m eternally burning…
The exhibition consists of thirty 3D lenticular backlit photographic portraits of the participants. The 3D lenticular process itself, intensifies the emotion felt by the audience. The desire to reach out and touch the image, invites the audience to transfer the physical desire into an emotional one, and to reach out emotionally to the humanity that entwines us all together. Aiming to reveal the unique essence of each person’s story, the images take a new visual realm by presenting these narratives in a more personal, in-depth way. The audience has the opportunity to hear the participants speak in their own words, which draws them closer, into the still, penetrating gaze of the participant’s faces forming a close emotional connection transcending the traditional audience-subject divide. We cannot argue when someone says, “I feel”, – it is not our right. It is part of our own journey to learn empathy rather than compassion. Our own reaction, exposes us to ourselves, and our ability to listen when someone lays their naked soul in our path.
“I feel like being an aboriginal with a disability is a tough road on both paths where I’m eternally burning…
‘I am from Baryulgil, where the asbestos mine is. Weekends we use to be up in the mines playing in…
‘I came here in the year 2000. When I was really sick. I was in the hospital. I had diabetic…
‘I’m from Geraldton. I went to prison for the rest of my life. Been there for ten years of my…
‘‘I’ve got my daughter, who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy since birth and my boy, who is 13 years old…
‘I am Koori inside my blood, inside my body. I am so proud because I am living in town and…
‘I got into filmmaking and video making. I was one of the founders of Metro Screen way back, 30, 40…
‘I have been a foster parent for 28 and a bit years. I am just taking care of my ex-sister-in-law’s…
‘How many Paralympics have I been to? I’ve played in 5. My passport back in 1960 was an honorary English…
‘The Aboriginal communities, they have this thing, which has been talked about on TV about who’s black and who’s blacker,…
‘I am the Grandmother of Hudson. It was not right that our little children were growing up in this environment…
‘My name is Josh Lennox and I love to paint and I like doing Aboriginal painting. Painting makes me feel happy…
‘I didn’t want to accept the fact that I was deaf, ‘cause I wanted to be a hearing person so…
‘As I was getting a drink, he just came in and poured petrol over me and lit me up. I…
‘Being an Aboriginal, I think it gives a great deal of pride and sense of purpose as well. So a…
‘My son walked out the front of this property and the police saw him cross the road. One of the…
‘I live in Warooko on Groote Eylandt, and this is my story to talk about the MJD. From my two…
‘I’m from Mowanjum near Derby, WA, in the far north Kimberley. We have a big problem with alcohol in the…
‘They said they had this place up at Hay, in NSW, it was a Japanese World War II prison, and…
‘Aunty Carol Carter, acquired Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) as a result of malpractice by her local doctor, who failed to check…
‘I am the mother of a 2-year-old boy with Achondroplasia, which is the most common form of dwarfism. Not knowing…
‘I went forward to check this place out and when I was moving forward I tripped a mine and it…
ELDER, YANKUNYTIJATJARA COUNTRY ‘In the 1950s there was British Government and the Australian Government made an agreement to have bomb…
‘Our Indigenous people of Australia are 3 per cent of the total Australian population. But of that 3 per cent…
‘Roseanne, like many other Indigenous children in remote Central Australia, was born with foetal alcohol-related brain damage. She grew up…
‘My name is Tyrone. My mum, well now I call her mum, she used to be my aunty but now…
‘I get teased a lot. I would like to grow up and help other people, because I don’t want them…
‘I was diagnosed by Fred Hollows and he told me that I had a form of macular degeneration, which meant…
‘I was raised to think and act white, which has been a hard thing to come up against and change…
‘Just because we are black they look at us as one, and we don’t see it. We got our own…