Asylum Vessels for a Journey. Installation
my apologies to Nick Dorrer for pinching the Vessels for a Journey bit of the title I am sure he will forgive me though Ross Barber.
Turning Point  Caloundra Regional  Gallery 2001- 2002
Asylum is a work that consists of forty small boats made of a mix of english and  non english newspapers  installed in the gallery to encourage a meaningful debate on the issues of migration and asylum. 
The way to create the ideal state, according to Saint Thomas Aquinas, is to keep the population strong of arm, educated enough to pay their taxes and in perpetual mistrust of each other. 
We might be forgiven for mistaking Saint Thomas' formula for social control as being very contemporary, given the current level of distrust being generated today in our culture. 
Aquinas understood that throughout cultures there were differences. The tragedy is that he counselled the exploitation of those differences, rather than value the potential of a multicultural and diverse society.