Honor the Indigenous

Buffy Sainte-Marie (1968)

Weekends at thunder dome.

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for Roberto Cavalli as part of Fashion Film Festival Milano + Vogue Italia’s “Through My Eyes” project

Meryl McMaster: In-Between Worlds (previously posted here)

In-Between Worlds explores the mixing and transforming of bi-cultural identities - Indigenous and Euro-Canadian (Scottish and Cree).

McMaster views her bicultural Indigenous-European heritage as a synergistic strength rather than a struggle between opposing forces. Through working on this series, McMaster transformed the way she views the past, creating a new narrative that comments on her personal heritage and its relation to a larger, shared cultural history that is inextricable from the land. Colourful self-portraits insert the artist’s body into visual spaces that reflect both the inspiration that she felt during her time alone in nature and the sense of being between two worlds. The images depict McMaster posed with evocative sculptures and sculptural garments, which she constructed to serve as talismans that incorporate her bicultural heritage through collage.

This series addresses the idea of liminality, of being betwixt and between cultural identities and histories.

“I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”

Ander Sagastiberri

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Deception (1946)

Bette Davis in Deception  (Irving Rapper, 1946)