'A beautiful book, in text and in images, and obviously comes out of an intimate and longstanding knowledge of black and white life in Alice.' author Beverly Farmer
'Moss's way of looking and participating forces readers to adapt their reading, holding off judgment and reaction. The stories are astonishing, but Moss's way of telling them and depicting them in paintings invites –indeed forces – patience and humility.' The Australian
'Rich with anecdote and observation, both confronting and affecting, this is a must-read.' The Big Issue
'A testament, in images and words, to interrelationships. It is a book of nakedness and self-knowledge both sides, as compassionate and humorous as it is harrowing … a true love story … this invaluable book is our initiation into the Centre's hard light of day, a light that is also rendered literally: Moss conveys the beauty and strength of the landscape with brilliant precision …' Age
'The friendship between a white painter and an Arrernte elder gives a raw insight into indigenous life in the red centre.' Sydney Morning Herald
'The writing is as clear and luminous as the authors paintings, and it records, with painstaking accuracy, Rod Moss’s past 25 years in the Alice that he loves.' Good Reading
'This is a book you will want to own.' Good Reading
'No other talented white Australian artist has mingled for so long with Aboriginal people with as much respect and intimacy as Rod Moss. The result is an oeuvre of supreme importance to this country - at once naked, droll, precise, compassionate: a Realism performed with unusual ethical intelligence. Now we have the writing to match the painting. With regard to our lives and theirs, it, too, breaks new ground.' Barry Hill, author
'Moss sees the truth of the Centre: here is the hidden face of today's Alice Springs.' Nicolas Rothwell, author