Unfolding Lives.....

Who doesn't remember making and playing with a 'paper fortune teller' when they were young? Ok maybe it was a 'girl' thing, with questions like 'does he like me' or 'will he ask me out'..hmmm! definitely a girl thing!! This sculpture by Judith Forrest that sits in the Perth Cultural Centre named Unfolding Lives is very much less trivial. Commissioned by the Department of Child Protection and the Federal Government it is inscribed with stories of 'the Forgotten Australians', the 56,000 West Australians who were placed in institutional care as children, many of them neglected and abused. I like it very much, a familiar childhood memory to remind us never to forget those terrible times.. Hope your week has started well, take care.....