For this project, I was required to choose a publication text provided by the teacher. I decided to go with 'The child as mediator of racial ambivalence in Australia: ‘Egg Boy’ and the racist girl' by Joanne Faulkner. This publication explores the white settler colony in Australia, discussing racial violence throughout Australian history and how children's innocence and naivety have often redeemed their problematized actions. ‘White’ children are compared to indigenous children throughout this publication. The aboriginal child is viewed as representing aboriginality itself, reconciliation, forgiveness, and an incorrigibly criminal, versus a ‘white’ child, viewed as representing purification, privilege, and purity. Together, however, they are both invested with anxiety and ambivalence. This publication investigates two racist and antiracist white childhoods. That is the racist 13-year-old unnamed girl, who yelled a racist comment to AFL player, Adam Goodes from the sidelines at a football game, and Will Connoly, the antiracist ‘eggboy’ hero, who egged white supremacists and the senator, Fraser Anning, after their racist comments about the Christchurch massacre.

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The purpose of the publication I created was to evoke emotive feelings within the viewer, about the pain and destruction of racism, and then divide it has caused between white colonial settlers and indigenous Australians, through expressive type, graphics, and images. The history of the torn apart Australian society, the loss of people's identity, and the naivety of children is highlighted in this abstract publication. I ensured it was striking and legible for the viewer to read and navigate around.

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I decided on the name 'Torn', as the publication explores a torn apart and separated Australian society. Therefore I ripped up a lot of images to reflect this title, creating collages, as well as sticking red tape over the cracks of the torn pages. This tape mirrors Australians trying to cover up the cracks through the antiracist boy whom Australians seem to think because of his courageous actions, which I do very much commend, we, therefore, do not have to face ‘the everyday embedded and violent nature of white supremacist ideology within our society’, which we very much do have to face (Faulkner, 2022).