Unforgotten
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Year:
2023
This piece speaks to the collective experience of Indigenous people, our pain, our strength, and our refusal to disappear. Each letter holds fragments of history: displacement, stolen land, silenced voices, broken treaties, and lives forever altered by colonial violence. The dripping reds are not only blood, but memory, the stories passed through generations that refuse to be erased.
Within the forms are figures of resistance and survival: ancestors, children, protectors, and those who continue to stand despite everything taken from them. The imagery reflects injustice, grief, and anger, but also resilience, community, and spirit. Even in the darkest spaces, there is movement, life, and presence.
This work is not only about what was done to Indigenous people, it is about who we are still becoming. It honours those lost, those fighting, and those carrying the weight of truth forward. It is a reminder that Indigenous issues are not history; they are lived realities. And despite centuries of harm, we are still here. Still speaking. Still creating. Still rising.
