The Journey, by Gabriel Stengle

This piece by Gabriel Stengle (Kaurna, Ngarrindjeri, Narungga) depicts ‘The Journey’. The Journey that DCP takes alongside it’s partners, alongside the children, parents, grandparents and caregivers. The meeting place in the middle is surrounded by children to show that they are the centre and light of everything, that they are what everyone is working so hard for and the meeting place is their destination and where the Journey lines meet.

Surrounded by the inner meeting place are smaller meeting places/waterholes representing the individual Journeys of the children, families and workers alike connected through more Journey lines.

The smaller waterholes represent the many different places and areas the children are from.

Throughout this piece there are many Kangaroo and Emu footprints representing DCP in their Journey moving forward and never backward.

The bottom of the piece has the symbol for rainbow which represents Hope.

The vibrant colours are used to represent each individual's story and that everyone’s story matters and is always seen.