00:00A chance to heal through art, this painting lovingly created by Stephanie Brown, who lost
00:09her eight-year-old sister Geraldine during Cyclone Tracey.
00:13Everything got wet and they were crushed.
00:15My brother and my dad were trying to hold the walls up and our sister knew she was dying
00:23and she said I'm going now and she told everybody that she loved them.
00:26It's dedicated to all the souls lost to the ferocious storm 50 years ago and is part of
00:33an exhibition of works in Darwin, created by survivors from across the country, keen
00:38to process their trauma from the night.
00:40It's what it must have been like for the parents having to protect their children and our father
00:45never got over it.
00:46He never got over losing Geraldine.
00:47He always felt it was his fault, it was his responsibility to look after her.
00:53Memories of sheltering from the horrendous wind, rain and flying debris, hiding places
00:59and memories of a Christmas that would never be forgotten, captured in ceramics, sculpture
01:05and mosaics of shattered glass and treasured items.
01:09It's very heartfelt, very special exhibition and people, the artists have actually poured
01:17their heart and soul into their work.
01:20I think it's great for survivors because we get to feel a bit of healing.
01:25I really think that, for us anyway, isn't it?
01:28And my art is about healing.
01:30Another work, a weather map of the storm, slow stitched using recycled fabrics.
01:36After Cyclone Tracy, so many of us recycled things, repurposed things, took what we could
01:44from the debris and then created homes, temporary homes, temporary shelters.
01:51So people have come from all over, not necessarily living in Darwin, but coming from interstate
01:58and we've come back together again, to be together again.
02:01We all survived that horrific event 50 years ago.
02:05The hearts and souls of those who survived on display in loving memory of those who died.
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