Artist and activist Destiny Deacon embodies her work with a sense of playfulness that disarms her audience. Through her work she seeks to disrupt prevailing representations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people that dehumanise and reinforce negative stereotypes. In Forced into images 2001, children are instructed to try on masks representing different archetypes; their refusal to conform to societal expectations of the characters they assume is echoed in Deacon’s ‘low-tech’ aesthetic as a defiance of expected audiovisual norms.