ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about two periods of community arts practice with the people of Yarloop expressing those parallels. It explains the guiding ideas that informed the author's engagement with the community and industry. The chapter describes the just(ice) arts projects and the author's understanding of their value for the participants. It outlines the ideas that were informing the author's arts practice during these two tumultuous periods in Yarloop’s history. Traditional methods of research and data gathering were judged to be inappropriate in this complex setting. Yarloop was settled in the mid-1800s as part of white settlers’ possession of Aboriginal land. Yarloop has persisted as a contested space for those both with power and those who feel powerless and as a divided community of the socially included and the socially excluded and of the respected and disrespected.
