20
Margaret Orr
In the middle of the painting is a Council meeting. Grey people
(U) are seniors, the old people. Brown U are the community
members. White U are the visiting research workers. The
meeting gives permission for visiting researchers to go out
and talk to the community. One group of community people
talk into tape recorders (U with rectangle above). They can
decide if their stories are OK to share or if they are private
and confidential. Other people talk and the researchers write
down what they say (white books). The people are OK for the
researchers to take their words away for the research, but
they have to give a copy to the community people. Another
group talks up strong to the visiting researchers and gives
them good ideas but says the stories are confidential (brown
books), and the researchers can’t write them down.
