#ColonialImaginaryUniverse These stained-glass windows are located in St George’s Anglican Church, Malvern, Melbourne, Australia, and celebrate Bishop Reginald Heber (1783-1826) and Bishop William Grant Broughton (1788-1853). The problems are obvious: The two are pictured in full clerical robes and tower over the indigenous peoples who are small, naked, supplicant, and with penitent gazes. The story… The Perpetual Mundane Imaginary in Spaces of Christian Worship

#ColonialImaginaryUniverse This statue of Captain Cook sits on ‘The Mall’ near the ‘Admiralty Arch’ adjacent to ‘Trafalgar Square’ looking down toward ‘Buckingham Palace’. It occupies, in other words, a key place in celebration of the naval dominance of the British Empire and with a literal direct link to the British crown.  The caption on the… Memorialising Colonisation

Colonisation is structural but it is also a universe of images and expectations, an ‘imaginary’, mundane ways of seeing the world which continue to legitimise violence against the cultural and religious other as normative. #ColonialImaginaryUniverse