John Dalton, Danny's Eyes (SINGLE SHOT 2022)

Danny is a Wakka Wakka man. After performing a traditional Welcome to Country, he listens to the Federal Court judge deliver a decision on the Land Application at Cherbourg (Qld April 2022). Some expressed joy at the success of their campaign. Others remembered the 180 years of dispossession, institutional confinement by the State and the ancestors who never lived to see such recognition or freedom. This image expresses the irony of the decision. Danny is being handed back control of the unused portions of the land that was always his. This history and irony are expressed in Danny’s eyes.

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