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Title: History Repeats Itself
Medium: Acrylic and spray paint on canvas
Price: Please inquire for pricing - jack@fingerprintgallery.ca
About:
“After many years of carrying this canvas, including at three youth workshops, it has over 10 years of paint layers from kids painting on it. After receiving the 60s Scoops letter during COVID, I began the healing process by studying the classic rendition of Rubens’s Massacre of the Innocents. This painting has been and still is the most difficult to wrestle with, as replacing Roman guards slaughtering women and children with them being stolen by the mounted police has been a painful process. This painting is about confronting the empires that facilitated the kidnapping of children in both Rome and Canada, and I hope it prompts viewers to take action to ensure we don’t allow these horrible historic policies to repeat themselves as history so often does.”
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Title: History Repeats Itself
Medium: Acrylic and spray paint on canvas
Price: Please inquire for pricing - jack@fingerprintgallery.ca
About:
“After many years of carrying this canvas, including at three youth workshops, it has over 10 years of paint layers from kids painting on it. After receiving the 60s Scoops letter during COVID, I began the healing process by studying the classic rendition of Rubens’s Massacre of the Innocents. This painting has been and still is the most difficult to wrestle with, as replacing Roman guards slaughtering women and children with them being stolen by the mounted police has been a painful process. This painting is about confronting the empires that facilitated the kidnapping of children in both Rome and Canada, and I hope it prompts viewers to take action to ensure we don’t allow these horrible historic policies to repeat themselves as history so often does.”
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