As one of the Cementa-13 artists I developed a work where I interviewed passers-by; those just walking down the main street of Kandos, in late December and January. I wanted to know if they had got the cane on their hand at school. If so could I take a photograph or video of their hand and listen as they talked about their experiences of justice applied, accepted, rejected and resented. Over fifty participated by providing their stories and by allowing their hands to be photographed.
These fragments of individual stories were overlaid in a video on a background of the images of the palms of their hands, the sites of that school punishment system. The final edit of the video was shown on a TV screen located in the archive section of the Kandos Museum surrounded by class photos from the local schools and other paraphernalia of the school experience provided from the collection of the Kandos Museum. This work was called _Cane._While installing the work and siting with it over the four days, talking with visitors and the various tour groups that came through I developed a high level of respect for the festival, in particular the way it allowed people including artists to connect with other artists and their work in a meaningful way.