‘Injustice’ encapsulates the immediate sting of racism, which seemed to spray across my personal space upon arrival. The palpable tension, heavy and suffocating in the air, is mirrored by elongated time, magnified by the sheer discomfort of the juncture in the Australian experience.
This artwork vividly portrays the profoundly unsettling collision of cultures, each coexisting in the same place and time but inhabiting vastly different realities.
The tension emanating from the symbolic pattern, pregnant with historical significance, speaks powerfully to the brutal truth of the ongoing systemic disparity that persist in Australia.