“This is always the biggest thing amongst Indigenous people. The tale that the white man will come to save us. You go anywhere in the world, any Indigenous culture will say, ‘One day a messiah will come, and he’s a white man.’ What I really wanted to do with the very first image was dispel the myth that they’ll come to save us. From what? We’re already emancipated in our own cultures. Why do we need this white man? But also, mythologizing is very much a part of it. Every culture has it, so it’s an accepted norm and an invented norm and everything. Culturally, it’s a universal perspective amongst Indigenous people. I wanted to start with that, the connection between the colonizer and then eventually the fractured colonized culture.”
