In this photograph – from the 'Mis/perceptions’ series, in which the artist challenges cultural stereotypes about Indigenous Australians – Darren Siwes depicts a church in the Adelaide suburbs. Symbolic of European settlement, the suburban church suggests the complex relationships between Indigenous Australians and Christianity. Many Indigenous people from diverse language groups were relocated to missions during the early colonisation of Australia and, despite this, Christian influence persists in many contemporary Indigenous cultures. The ghostly apparition of Siwes tenuously reclaims a position in view of the church, alluding to the presence and non-presence of Indigenous people throughout history.