Sometimes something touches your heart and gives you inspiration. That is what inspired Mi’kmaw artist Jordyn Gehue of Indian Brook Fist Nation. Jordyn created a medallion based on missing and murdered indigenous woman. This is what she has to say about her piece.
There’s so much meaning in this one faceless woman.
She’s faceless because she could be any of the missing and murdered. She’s faceless because of the stark reality that any one of us could end up as she is. She’s faceless because that’s what we are to some people in this country- just another missing and murdered “Indian’… so many in this country won’t admit this thriving racism. Her skin is made to look like broken glass that has been put back togeth ...