Subjectivity More Vertical Panels

A connection to the land, European dominance.
Various memories of a distant family, the house… ownership missing. Old rotting broken fences used for fire wood. Objects worn down by the elements. Dirty faces and smelly cloths.
A disconnection to foreign values language and way of life.
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A constant thought......
"In 1935 a fair-skinned Australian of part-indigenous descent was ejected from a hotel for being an Aboriginal. He returned to his home on the mission station to find himself refused entry because he was not an Aboriginal. He tried to remove his children but was told he could not because they were Aboriginal. He walked to the next town where he was arrested for being an Aboriginal vagrant and placed on the local reserve. During the Second World War he tried to enlist but was told he could not because he was Aboriginal. He went interstate and joined up as a non-Aboriginal. After the war he could not acquire a passport without permission because he was Aboriginal. He received exemption from the Aborigines Protection Act-and was told that he could no longer visit his relations on the reserve because he was not an Aboriginal. He was denied permission to enter the Returned Servicemen's Club because he was."
Unpublished paper, Aboriginal Citizenship conference at the ANU in February 1996.
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Clarification
In the 1980s a new definition was proposed in the Constitutional Section of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs' Report on a review of the administration of the working definition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Canberra, 1981). The section offered the following definition:

"An Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander is a person of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent who identifies as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander and is accepted as such by the community in which he (she) lives."
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A reconnection process
Vertical Panels, overlay of colour and form, tension, movement and a unification of elements.