Sacred Spring: Kevin Lee Burton
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Wanuskewin Heritage Park Galleries RR #4 Penner Rd, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7K 3J7
Kevin Lee Burton, "She Foxy," (detail)
Sacred Spring is a series of images that represent spirit beings. This imagining and manifestation of entities is my expression of spirituality as an artist, philosophy of reincarnation, and contemporary traditionality. Indigenous people have had and continue to have an unstable relationship with colonial Canada. Over the course of history, Indigenous people have been bludgeoned with many attempts of eradication – outlawed spirituality, programmed assimilation, acculturation, and forbidden ancestral languages. Given all these attempts, Indigenous people and their traditional practices have survived. I believe what has been key in this survival is the evolution and persistence of cultural and traditional practices. Sacred Spring is my ceremony.
– KEVIN LEE BURTON
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