In 1942, after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbour and massive advances of Japanese armed forces towards Australia, John Curtin declared a redirection of Australia’s foreign policy outlook towards America.
This picture displayed at the sacred heart of Air Kaca in Morotai shows Australian Prime Minister John Curtin talking with General Douglas MacArthur in 1944.
They worked well together.
Namanya musyawarah. (It’s called dialogue.)
Geoff Fox, December 10, 2025, Melbourne, Australia
Created a couple of decades ago. Music made in Melbourne, most of the photos are from Indonesia.
Geoff Fox, December 10, 2025, Melbourne, Australia
During World War Two, Trooper Al Gofrey promised his three friends, Doug Tatti, Ben Lappin and Jack Dillon that he would fly the Australian flag for them and remember their names for the rest of his life.
Al is no longer alive, but his smiling face in his driveway under the flag he loved and his friends’ names can be seen at Air Kaca in Morotai, an island on which Al served as a water carrier in 1945.
Geoff Fox, December 7, 2025, Melbourne, Australia
My late friend Al Godfrey served in the same battle as my father, “Rick” Fox in World War Two: the second Battle Of Balikpapan.
Al had a feeling that he met Dad then. So he asked me to combine an image of my dad with a photo of himself. Al is at the wheel of 1945 corvette HMAS Castlemaine. I added my dad in his youth in his AIF uniform.
Standing next to the artwork is young Ghifary Buamona, whose mother Anna established this art display before dying tragically young at 38 years of age on May 16 this year. The artwork in the background shows Douglas MacArthur and family celebrating victory.
This art display is at Indonesia’s national heritage register site Air Kaca at Morotai. The water there is so pure and clear that Douglas MacArthur built his wife a bathroom there.
Lest We Forget
Geoff Fox, December 7, 2025, Melbourne, Australia
An artwork on display at Air Kaca featuring me and an amazing aboriginal elder.
Geoff Fox, December 7, 2025, Melbourne, Australia
I created this music video about 15 years ago with a band called cccc (pronounced “c4”) mostly photographed in Malang, East Java.
I am proud of it.
Geoff Fox, December 6, 2025, Melbourne, Australia
Anna Rumaderun knew and understood me as an Austral-Indonesian artist better than anyone else did.
Because of her my art display at a waterhole sacred to the memory of General Douglas MacArthur, Air Kaca, in Morotai, Indonesia, was revived and extended last year and earlier this year.
She died far too young at 38 years of age on the 16th of May this year.
She and her husband Irham are pictured above.
Pictured below is her son, Ghifary – named after me – at Air Kaca beside an artwork dedicated to his mum.
For Anna. Caring. Striving. Loving. Knowing What’s Good. In The Name Of The Lord Of Truth.
Lest We Forget:
Anna Rumaderun
Geoff Fox, December 5, 2025, Melbourne, Australia
ART IN INDONESIA 