As a black Colorado USA born African American and now Australian resident, Aurora Coulter is acutely aware of her heritage, the treatment of her coloured predecessors and forebears in the United States - and also the history of Australia’s indigenous population since supposed ‘settlement’. This image was made to reflect an historical aspect of the treatment of indigenous peoples at the hands of colonialists, exposing their vulnerability … and portray a symbolic loosening of the ‘corset’.