Indigenous Perspective- Sorry Day

This is my collage on the indigenous perspective- Sorry Day. I chose this topic because it is one of the main indigenous issues. The background that I chose was the fireworks as it is a time for celebration in a way that it is a time of mourning. The reason that I chose the mother and boy hugging is because they are comforting each other and they look like they are thinking or remembering something. I put the butterfly on the mother's shoulder as to me the butterfly represents freedom and relief, like they can relieve a bit of stress or worry in their lives. I used juxtaposition between the lightness and brightness of the fireworks and the mother and child's dark hair and skin colour. Also as it is highly unlikely that the mother and child would be at the fireworks. The fireworks almost seems to make the mother and child look brighter. The reason that I chose an orange/yellow butterfly is so I could look like it had some relation to the fireworks. The focal point of this collage to me is the fireworks however the way that the fireworks droop down lead you to the butterfly, mother and boy.