Something More Poem Analysis

This work examines the past and also imagines the future by using references of past racial murders and the way they coincide with the present context and explore Australian Indigenous and non-Indigenous culture in the present-day. Ah Kee created this series of artworks in response to the apparent police cover up of the death of a young man in their custody, for protection of their own lead to claims of racism. The faces are also non-specific and have no identity, this refers back to the devastating history of racial discrimination and violence against indigenous people in

The play tells the audience a lot of living in Australia and how sometimes we as Australians never look at the bigger picture of things. At the crux of Nicola Gunn and David Woods’ performance of A Social Service deals with an artist who has been asked to design a piece of art collaborating with the locals of the public housing estate. Her aims were to try and be as selfless as possible: she desires to provide the public housing estate people the powers of articulation and provide for them, into and out of the art they make, a real perception of possession towards their home. But halfway through the play she realises that there is more that meets the eye and all is not what it is set out to be – she has been stood up and really she is there to be apart of the “local council's urban renewal agenda”. This can be seen in the storyline of this play on the estate, Nicola Gunn meets a young man named Angelo. Gunn’s character enters her residency with artistic sophistication, but the thrust of the play is her growing realisation that the political role of the artist is not a neutral one; while she may be a master of her craft, she exists as a servant of forces far more powerful. Based on the creators’ research of public housing in Melbourne and overseas, its story is so close to many truths, especially those about public art being used to take away public space. The

Based on a true story, Wayne Blair brings us a story about four young Aboriginal women who try and follow their dreams of being famous during a time where war has taken over. In the 1950s, the Aboriginal population of Australia was considered “not human” and ignored by society, aborigines were not yet accepted as citizens in Australia because of the stereotypical image “white” people have created for aborigines. Which gives more meaning to this story because it shows a group of struggling aboriginal girls who are trying to find a place where they can fit in and be accepted as who and what they are.

The poems “I Hate and I Love” “Thursday” and “Milk Teeth” all have the theme of a relationship that isn’t going too well. Specifically a relationship that has a one sided love; or in other words, unrequited love. I specifically chose these three songs because they connect to each other so well. Each poem displays the true feelings of what being in an unrequited relationship is like. Whether they are frustrated with their significant other or themselves or whether if they are drained of loving too much.

The essay entails the first encounter of Aboriginals and the European settlers, “… the ‘discoverers’ struggling through the surf were met on the beaches by other people looking at them from the edge of the trees…” (Rhys Jones, 1985). The work serves as a timeless reminder of Australia’s history both before and after 1788. It makes viewers question the integrity of Australia’s past and future, encouraging them to ask themselves whether humanity has learnt from our mistakes and how much our society has actually changed. Fiona Foley and Janet Laurence have together created a timeless social comment that confronts the viewers with their own history, thus further establishing the truth of ______’s

Historians view Lycett’s artworks as “evidence against the legal doctrine of Terra Nullius – the idea of Australia as an ‘empty land’ that Europeans were entitled to claim as their own” (McDonald 2008, 75). Had the album been published in Lycett’s lifetime another perspective of Australia would have been presented to a broader audience. In A Distant View of Sydney and the Harbour, Captain Piper’s Navel Villa at Eliza Point on the Left, in the foreground a family of Aborigines, (see figure 4), Lycett has depicted an aboriginal family; a woman carrying an infant and a young boy behind, carrying weapons like the man who is leading them, they are walking through a raised area of the foreshore. The figures are dominating in the composition and are portrayed as “people in control of the land and ready to defend their use of it” (Pugh 1990, 7). In the background of the drawing, there is evidence of white settlement. The scene depicts Sydney Cove, Garden Island, and fort Denison. The Governor’s stables just discernible and to the left a windmill. In the far left of the image is the Navel Villa, a grand building with a large garden where Captain John Piper resided. Although the work conveys assertion of Aboriginal ownership it also communicates the impact of European

First poem is Dream Variations, it says that the African American people “what to fling there arms wide in some place of the sun, to whirl and to dance till the white day is done. Then rest at cool evening”. I personally can see that they are talking about that they have a desire for the freedom, but they can't get it, because it says at the end of the second paragraph,” That is my dream.''

Hi, Ian. I really enjoy working with your poem. When you flip through the pages you might notice that the letter "I" is constantly lowercase until the very end of the book. For me, the lowercase "i" is always a representation of young, innocent, and perplexed. The uppercase "I" represent growing up and being enlightened. I also add a bit "miracle" just in case you are bored by the grayish color. I learned a lot from the poem. You let me believe whenever there is difficulty, I should try me best to go through. Because when the time I pass through the difficulty I'll turn into a better person. Thank you.

The poem that caught my attention was by Gwendolyn Brooks, she says “poetry is life distilled”. This bears the thought that everyone at some point in their life wonders about what could of and should of have been. We all have wondered about what we could have missed out on. As water is distilled there is a separation of particles, the purified particles are left in the water and the bad particles are filtered away. But what happens to those that are filtered away? Could they have been saved?

Contemporary Indigenous Art in Australia is a fundamental core into the exploration into contemporary visual culture, and that of historical reflection and tradition. Art and decoration acts as an integral part of the traditional indigenous lifestyle1, such tradition repressed through the centuries of destructive oppression, that continued through to the late 20th century, reinforced by an education system and society dominated by a history built on the belief in Australia as terra nullius. Such narratives and visual representations of history present the colonisers as powerful figures of exploration, and colonisation- the bearers of learning and civilisation in a land of ‘primitive’, failing to acknowledge the sovereign rights of Australia’s Indigenous people.

European reception of Aboriginal art has long been regarded as problematic in contemporary art historical discourse. Academics seem to agree upon the fact that 19th and early 20th centuries transfused with Western colonial and evolutionist ideals, marked a total disregard to or denial of Aboriginal art, while, in turn, the postmodernism re-evaluated and incorporate it within the context of global and interdisciplinary approach. However, recent scholarly research on Ernst Grosse’s book The Beginnings of Art and a number of other authors has shown that this view has, in fact, been false, as these accounts present a global perspective on art and aesthetics in both space and time and recognises the artistic merit of Aboriginal visual expression . Questions about why has Grosse’s work have been overlooked in historiography of art studies up until now and how does it correspond to the current debate in regard to Aboriginal art consequently might be asked.

1. Describe the piece of writing or artwork that you've chosen to respond to. What special qualities does it have? What made it stand apart for you?

The words poem and poetry mean “to create or make.” There is a variety of different ways to

The goal of the final project was to create a cybertext project, but not just a simple and original one. The goal was to think outside of the box and come up with something unique. Knowing this, I took me a while to decide what to do a project on and I finally came up with one I felt would be great to create. I decide to create a poem generator based off of famous quotes from celebrities, atheletes, artists, etc. The theme of these quotes were about life and motivation. Poetry is a powerful way for one to express themselves and by creating a poem generator about life and motivation, it could maybe help someone else express their emotion.

The modern world faces many problems like climate change, economic uncertainty, many recent terrorist attacks all over the world and increasing the number of deaths. These factors along with the ongoing struggle by indigenous people for being recognised as the original custodians of the land, education and health makes us really think about how we should act as a nation. Since 1788, artists have been describing our country in art. They have acknowledged the landscape, the people and the way of life. Two artists who really stood out are Emily Kame Kngwarreye and Rover Thomas. They both have similar ways of painting by using a dotting technique. Their artwork is beautiful, traditional and meaningful. Every painting had a place in the artist’s heart. They both portrayed Australia as a peaceful and beautiful place to live, as they lived out in the bush and away from the cities and people. There is an inequality between indigenous and non-indigenous people in Australia. This inequality includes; shorter life expectancy for indigenous Australians, poorer health and lower levels of education and employment. Non-indigenous Australians are now making an effort to make an equal society between the indigenous and non-indigenous people. In 2008, the Australian government made a formal commitment to address indigenous disadvantages. They came up with a program called “Closing the Gap”. This program is to turn inequalities into equalities. Aboriginal artists paint pictures of the land