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Maximillian Deutscher (he/him) Wadawurrung
CHANGE THE., 2025
digital print on metal, framed
107.5 x 76.5 x 3.8 cm

The message I’m trying to convey in this piece is not of happiness nor sadness, as you will see a stream of interwoven dates marking the most crucial changes to our Indigenous culture in the last 250 years. A strong remark to change.

A lone figure can be seen as a symbol that the road ahead for our 70,000-year-old culture’s reconciliation is going to be long. Beside him, a possum navigates these stairs. One animal our culture has thrived off and lived in coexistence with for millennia has since been pushed to the city, like us. The possum embodies the fierce demand for positive change. His future intrinsically linked with our cries for change.

Casting a shadow on the piece is the level face of an ancestorial spirit. With his gaze, he has observed our culture and world suffer through some good yet some profoundly bad changes. With the looming high-voltage sign, it feels we are always on edge living in this world. We need change. Our culture needs change. Our possum demands change, or we may never see him climb back up those stairs.