ABSTRACT
Historically, the West depicted the rest of the world as inhabiting two places, the internal space of the museum with its illustrated journals, globes and labelled specimens, and the external reality of 'Other People'—languages, climates, land, flora, fauna and incomprehensible histories that were regulated to replicate each other once entering the internal world upon collection, capture or invitation. However, cultures experiencing colonisation since the sixteenth century have negotiated two worlds for four centuries. The skies and the ship this Aboriginal person describes and draws, while seemingly disassociated, are integrally connected. Globalisation dissolves the barrier of distance, and, today, Colonial centre is encountering Colonised periphery on new terms beyond the culture of dogs and guns. Spatiality has been the geographical disposition at the heart of Western dominion, and the urgency of globalisation, according to Morley and Robins is that as it 'dissolves the barriers of distance makes the encounter of colonial centre and colonised periphery immediate and intense'.
