George Littlechild: Here I am – Can You See Me?
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Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery 4525 47A Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta T4N 6Z6
George Littlechild, “Unidentified Child From The Ermineskin Indian Residential School #3,” 2019
mixed media on paper, 30”h x 22”w. (courtesy of the Artist)
Giving remembrance, recognition, honour and validation to the thousands of innocent children that nobody is able to recognize as they stand amongst their fellow residential school students in the photographs… these children are finally acknowledged, and work begins to recognise and remember these lost souls.
“This work involves a series of twenty-two drawings of First Nations children who perished while attending residential school in Maskwacis AB.
The title of work is called “Here I am – can you see me?” I want to give remembrance, recognition, honour and validation to the thousands of innocent children that nobody is able to recognize as they stand amongst their fellow residential school students in the photographs, all but forgotten in the museum archival collections.
In this manner I seek to legitimize their lives and restore a modicum of dignity and importance to their short existence in the world.” – George Littlechild, Artist
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