Kanahooka High School Writing and Art
Jack Baker conducted a nine-week creative writing workshop with Aboriginal students of Kanahooka High School. Below are some of the students poems, creative responses, and artworks.
Another workshop will be held in the second term of 2016, lead by Ron Pretty and other tutors facilitated in collaboration with Aunty Barbara Nicholson.
Two Grounds by Diana Wood Conroy
Kane Van Hout
(in response to Two Grounds by Diana Wood Conroy, 2000 – reproduced with permission from the artist)
The picture makes me feel like there’s white and black. White is for the whiteman, black is for the Aboriginal people. In the middle is a blank, so if we all work together we can turn the blank into more lines so that we could be together. The lines hold the spaces between us. If the blank is filled completely, we are together.
It makes me feel like no matter what there is, the white clan and the black clan are together now so we can make a lot of things together and we will always be these for each other.
Sandy
'Boy birds are the most attractive'
I painted a boy bird because I like brightly coloured birds. Boy birds are brightly coloured because they need to attract a mate. The pink dots are the nest and the blue and yellow dots represent worms.
Isaiah Vidler
I had grown a beard that covered my whole body.
I felt like an old man
and my eyes grew so big and blood shot
all I could see was red.
The only plus was that I could see better in the dark.
I grew so malnourished
I weighed 20 kilos.
I was a bag of bones,
so thin that
my dog mistook for a treat.
I was living on energy drinks,
could stay up all night.
To top it all, my girlfriend left me
and spent all of my money.
After a while,
I got bored so
I walked outside.
The light was so bright
all I could see was white
and a colourful bird.
I realized how stupid I’ been.
All of this happened because
I was addicted to a new xbox game.
Written by SCWC
Posted on December 03, 2015