Was looking at Naum Gabo's "Head" 1916 with a group of young students. I asked for words in response to the work, going around the group. It was an all-white school. One boy said the word, "Aboriginal", to describe the sculpture. So of course I asked why. He refused to answer as much as I tried to make it easy for him. In the end I asked whether it was because it's brown, like Aboriginal people's skin? But I don't think that's what he meant...
What worries me, aside from this boy refusing to think or take responsibility for his own words, was what they are teaching kids at school. I know Aboriginal art is on the national curriculum and I dread to think how it's being taught...