The Haunted and the Bad4 July - 10 August 2008 Andrea FISHER The work Shackles comes from a series of shackle (bracelets) I made, which is a statement over Aboriginal ownership on the legacy of history - which need not be a completely disempowering thing. Both positive and unsettling assertions are made through slogans and witticisms etched and cut into the shackle - images such as Always plotting express complex relational jokes that we are ready to take ownership over, the same way the shackles once took ownership of our ancestors. Our ancestors were rounded up and forced from their homes - sometimes restrained in shackles, manacles and neck chains - prisoners of a conquest for land. The history in these images today manifests themselves in many aspects of our lives throughout all of our communities - urban, regional, rural and remote. These shackles are made with the same mixture of due respect, seriousness, wit and black humour that we would treat the repatriation of any part of ourselves. We wear our shackles everyday.
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