ABSTRACT
A young Aboriginal man from Maroochydore was angered to protest by a ‘black and white’ image produced by other students. The content of the image is held in the viewer, enculturated to see more than he or she is looking at. The ‘shadow sister’ card engages its viewer in such a cultural act of seeing, in recognizing Kath Walker and Wright and their ‘cross racial’ relationship in its stylized black and white image. Walker was at the head of the move to Aboriginal self-determination and led the formation of a National Tribal Council in which only Indigenous members were to have voting rights, partly inspired by the Black Powerists she had met with in London. Walker’s voice flowed with a strong current and was often declamatory. Writing to Barbara Blackman, of her most frequent and intimate correspondents, Wright described a visit from Walker in 1980.
