One of the discussion points this week was artist Lin Onus and his ability to incorporate traditional Indigenous imagery into contemporary, political pieces. Onus uses political referents as well as current reflections of Australian culture (like his work with the Hill's Hoist and painted bats). Our class deliberated whether Onus's artwork was about loss or the reinvention of culture...my classmates and I discussed how Onus used a mocking tone towards the white Aussie society of today.

In the tutorial this week, our discussion group also talked about how (in the film from the lecture) Rover Thomas was able to look at a painting and sing the story that was being told - something that we all found so interesting. I suppose it's related to the Indigenous spiritual dreaming - something that only people who were raised in Aboriginal communities would understand. It's something that I find really engaging to think about.