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Vernon Ah Kee
Gaze, Unwritten, and If I Was White
Gaze
“… What I’m doing is I’m representing those images and trying
to retain the gaze, ‘cause it was a gaze of endurance and
persistence and intelligence and emotion and depth.”
“I’m trying to establish an idea of Aboriginal that is
contemporary and modern and stripped of all the romantic
ideas around spirituality and virtue and the decorative Stone
Age.”
Source:
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/messagestick/stories/s2545561.htm
Unwritten
“All the portraits start from the idea that you have these formless
faces on human bodies, but with no features. These are
Aboriginal people, just ordinary people like me, like me family, like
my friends. But the way that I’m portraying them in the drawings is
how white people see us, how the country sees us.
So it’s this idea that we have no eyes, no ears, no mouth, no
discernable features at all. So we are dumb, in that we can’t see,
can’t speak, can’t hear, and we’re held static, benign, silent and
bound. So the very early ones had lines going across the face.
They looked like they were emerging, but being held back, tied
back, and pushed back into the surface. So they’re always
becoming human, but never allowed to fully be human, never
reaching that point.
Unwritten
“The only aspects of humanity in the features are western. So in some of
them I will emphasise a brow or the nose or cheekbones, to demonstrate
this aspect of the western ideal. Like what’s happened with Christ.
Underneath is a fully realised human, representing a fully realised people.
See I was born three months before the referendum in 1967, and so for
the first three months of my life I was a non-person. I was property of the
state. The history of Aboriginal people in this country, Australia, has been
a history of always becoming human. We were written out of the
Constitution when it was first written. There’s the doctrine of terra nullius,
which wrote us out of existence. So that’s why these drawings are
unwritten. »
Source: http://monablog.net/2012/08/08/interview-with-vernon-ah-kee/
If I Was White
“My work is not always about sending out a message, but if it
needs to be made, then you have to make sure that message
is clear.”
Source: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/the-face-vernon-
ah-kee/story-e6frg8n6-1111116855996

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12VA Theory - Vernon Ah Kee Part 3 of 3

  • 1. Vernon Ah Kee Gaze, Unwritten, and If I Was White
  • 2. Gaze “… What I’m doing is I’m representing those images and trying to retain the gaze, ‘cause it was a gaze of endurance and persistence and intelligence and emotion and depth.” “I’m trying to establish an idea of Aboriginal that is contemporary and modern and stripped of all the romantic ideas around spirituality and virtue and the decorative Stone Age.” Source: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/messagestick/stories/s2545561.htm
  • 3. Unwritten “All the portraits start from the idea that you have these formless faces on human bodies, but with no features. These are Aboriginal people, just ordinary people like me, like me family, like my friends. But the way that I’m portraying them in the drawings is how white people see us, how the country sees us. So it’s this idea that we have no eyes, no ears, no mouth, no discernable features at all. So we are dumb, in that we can’t see, can’t speak, can’t hear, and we’re held static, benign, silent and bound. So the very early ones had lines going across the face. They looked like they were emerging, but being held back, tied back, and pushed back into the surface. So they’re always becoming human, but never allowed to fully be human, never reaching that point.
  • 4. Unwritten “The only aspects of humanity in the features are western. So in some of them I will emphasise a brow or the nose or cheekbones, to demonstrate this aspect of the western ideal. Like what’s happened with Christ. Underneath is a fully realised human, representing a fully realised people. See I was born three months before the referendum in 1967, and so for the first three months of my life I was a non-person. I was property of the state. The history of Aboriginal people in this country, Australia, has been a history of always becoming human. We were written out of the Constitution when it was first written. There’s the doctrine of terra nullius, which wrote us out of existence. So that’s why these drawings are unwritten. » Source: http://monablog.net/2012/08/08/interview-with-vernon-ah-kee/
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  • 7. If I Was White “My work is not always about sending out a message, but if it needs to be made, then you have to make sure that message is clear.” Source: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/the-face-vernon- ah-kee/story-e6frg8n6-1111116855996