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Taking a break and looking back - Part 22. A portrait of the late Revel Cooper, an indigenous artist (1934/35-1983). A portrait of the late Revel Cooper, an indigenous artist (1934/35-1983). This piece was created from black and white photos and the writing is an excerpt from a letter he wrote. "Firstly, the Aboriginal was deprived of everything, his country, the freedom to live his chosen way of life. But the greatest and most depressing loss of all was the loss of man's greatest and most treasured asset, the possession of pride. A man without pride is doomed to failure..." Revel Cooper #carrolup (at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrfGAHODcJy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=cls1prk581pr