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The Flipside of Sixpence: Aboriginal Stories of Hope and Reconciliation
Author(s) -
Larner Glenn
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1467-8438.2004.tb00577.x
Subject(s) - gratitude , conversation , narrative , painting , white (mutation) , psychoanalysis , project commissioning , psychology , sociology , aesthetics , art , visual arts , publishing , social psychology , literature , communication , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
This is Colleen Brown's last interview before her untimely death in 2002. The interview continues and extends Colleen's project to educate family therapists about Aboriginal experience and culture. In presenting Cecily's life narrative and painting, Colleen surprises us with a creative message of hope and reconciliation about the stolen generation, because Cecily expresses gratitude to the white family who brought her up. In her own words, Cecily ‘did that painting for me like the others so I could show family therapists what the other side of the coin is, the flipside’. This three‐way conversation between Colleen, Cecily and Glenn provides a contribution to the reconciliation process.