A great reminder to live life.
I highly recommend taking a look at First Nations/Metis Aaron Paquette’s work.
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This is a 18×24 drawing (pencil and charcoal)
This is part of my ‘June Juxtapositions’ series. While it is a piece inspired by Indigenous resistance, it is also meant to remind all human beings about the environmental violence we commit everyday. This piece is meant to remind human beings that while we are completely dependent on the Earth, the Earth does not need us and so we need to change the relationship we have with nature.
This guy, this guy right here. Ryan McMahon is an Anishinaabe comedian. His tour is sure to be a knee slapper. Great stuff available online too. Get his podcast app here http://rmlpodcast.com/app/
18×24 pencil. Toronto – part of my ‘June Juxtapositions’ series. The purpose of ‘June Juxtapositions’ is to draw attention to nature. The repositioning of nature in urban areas is a means to criticize how human beings behave as though we should have dominion over nature instead of live in harmony with it.
Powerful! Amazing work Rebecca Belmore.
I drew this as a reaction to all of the Indigenous cultural appropriations I see everywhere. ‘Indian’ costumes, ‘Indian’ fashion accessories, mascots, inaccurate representations in movies and on television.
People profit off of the distortion of our Indigenous identities. Our identities cannot be bought or sold. We are still here.
‘Stop’ in pencil, charcoal and coloured pencil. 18×14
This piece is from my ‘June Juxtapositions’ series which focuses on decolonizing and Indigenizing. June is significant to the series because it is National Aboriginal Awareness Month.
‘Stop’ is meant to draw attention to nature, to make us aware that we share the planet with other beings who have an equal right to life as humans.
I was so moved by this man’s story, I promised myself I would never forget him and the lesson he has for us all. Charlie Delorme was a residential school survivor who generously donated thousands of dollars (from his residential school compensation) to children’s charities. I drew him so I would never forget him.
Read about Charlie Delorme here: http://www.afn.ca/index.php/en/news-media/latest-news/assembly-of-first-nations-offers-condolences-following-passing-of-char
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