Maquette for BU Reconciliation Sculpture | ayîkisis
K.M.: “One thing when I look at Truth and Reconciliation is that it’s opened up all these scars that have been there forever. Now that the scars are there, they’re exposed, and people can see them. So when I look at my sculpture and see how it’s designed and what it’s actually symbolizing, it does symbolize a whole western notion of what truth is, which is hard for Indigenous people to grasp. But everyone grasps the subtraction, the cut out, the way the sinew is laced, the holes. They understand what it is, and you don’t have to be Indigenous at all to understand that. What it is, is an open wound that you’re trying to heal.”
