re: workshop and cops.....

hello lovers,

here are some workshop photos from a recent arbour collective workshop. we were printmaking and painting on the walls. it was fun painting on the walls. i love it. anyway. it was a good workshop and i love building community and community arts based projects, they're so rewarding and awesome. it's hard to explain, but i often tell me i'm over myself as an artist and get more out of helping others. weird eh? haha. 

and then after the workshop, i saw a weird scene with cops and fire dept. attending to a passed out native dude on the sidewalk. they knew him by name, which made it more sad, or tragic. but they were nice to him and treated him like a human being instead of garbage, which is what i'm used to seeing aboriginal people being treated like by most. sigh. 

that's the effects of residential school, the destruction of aboriginal families, culture, language and community. it pisses me off when non-aboriginal people ask me why "we can't just get over it." think about the stuff i just said in this paragraph. i suffer from post trauma syndrome, i've seen a lot of horrible things in my life growing up, and i'm struggling to overcome this stuff every day. it's complicated. 

anyway, until next time,

chris. 

it was weird to go from an awesome workshop

to this scene on the way home.

at least the cops and the fire dept. treated

this poor aboriginal man well

and with dignity.

it made me sad to see him

on the streets like that. sigh.