THIS VIDEO IS A TOUR OF THE '3 GIRLS WITH RED DOLL TRIPTYCH' . . .

‘3 GIRLS WITH A RED DOLL’ BANNER IN AUSTRALIA: (March 2022) When I shipped one of the ‘3 Girls with a Red Doll’ banners to Australia, I asked the folks who acquired it to take a picture showing something uniquely Australia in the background – what I envisioned was perhaps ‘a’ kangaroo about a mile behind or so, with an arrow pointing to a speck noting a ‘roo’.

Coral Foley, who is a visual artist in Australia known for her weaving, and one of the Stolen Generation (Australia Indigenous child taking, like the Canadian Residential School epoch) and her niece Dr. Robyn Williams went above and beyond in taking photos with the front and back of their 3 Girls with Red Doll banner at Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park, which is a haven for native animals, including kangaroos, which as you could see were most close.

The Stolen Generations were the children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders – like Canadian Residential School epoch

The Stolen Generations (also known as Stolen Children) were the children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian federal and state government agencies and church missions, under acts of their respective parliaments. The removals of those referred to as "half-caste" children were conducted in the period between approximately 1905 and 1967, although in some places mixed-race children were still being taken into the 1970s.

Official government estimates are that in certain regions between one in ten and one in three Indigenous Australian children were forcibly taken from their families and communities between 1910 and 1970.

Numerous 19th and early 20th-century contemporaneous documents indicate that the policy of removing mixed-race Aboriginal children from their mothers related to an assumption that the Aboriginal peoples were dying off. Given their catastrophic population decline after white contact, whites assumed that the full-blood tribal Aboriginal population would be unable to sustain itself, and was doomed to extinction. The idea expressed by A. O. Neville, the Chief Protector of Aborigines for Western Australia, and others as late as 1930 was that mixed-race children could be trained to work in white society, and over generations would marry white and be assimilated into the society. Some European Australians considered any proliferation of mixed-descent children (labelled "half-castes", "crossbreeds", "quadroons", and "octoroons”, terms now considered derogatory to Indigenous Australians) to be a threat to the stability of the prevailing culture, or to a perceived racial or cultural "heritage”.  The Northern Territory Chief Protector of Aborigines, Dr. Cecil Cook, argued that "everything necessary [must be done] to convert the half-caste into a white citizen”.            

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations)

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[take about 4 days to make a banner as there are a number of layers and such that have to be allowed to dry fully before next layer is applied - would ship within about 10 days max, and we will send you an email with tracking numbers and such when shipped]

THIS IS THE BOOKLET THAT COMES SIGNED AND NUMBERED WITH THE PACKAGE, IT WILL TELL YOU ALL ABOUT THE BANNER . . . 3 Girls With Red Doll Triptych Booklet

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    This is a video about my Limited Edition of 100 1.3 meter (50 inches) canvas banners in response to the recent publicity of the finding of a growing number [now over 5,000] of unmarked graves of Indigenous Children - CHILDREN . . . . It is true that biography, what has happened to a person, or where they come from, be it collective or individual, is not identity. Having said that, it is certain that there is not one indigenous family in Canada who has not been affected by the Government Indian Residential Schools which changed the Indigenous world view. This is 2021, yet the last Canadian Federal Government funded residential school, in Rankin Inlet northern Canada, closed in 1997 – just 24 years ago.
    Much of my art speaks to the impact of Government overreach into Indian and Indigenous lives, and of note, the Indian Residential Schools. My themes are of lost of agency, displacement, mental and emotional impact including mental distress, depression, addictive behaviours and substance mis-use. Disappeared children, death Native children, is not news to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, or Indigenous Communities, it has been carried over the generations in oral history and hearts. Thus, I wanted to do a focused project in respectful response, not just reaction, but a reflective unique visual mirror of substance.
    Why only a limited edition of 100 banners? As each banner is done by hand, to assure each is distinctive, frankly I don’t have time to do more than 100 by hand, nor do I wish to over reach myself on this issue.

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