An art installation reflecting on the experiences of Indigenous children who went to residential schools was unveiled at Vancouver Community College.
After a year in development, the installation called Truth was created by Haida artist Tamara Bell.
“’It is testimonies, stories about colonization important facts and information about people like John A MacDonald,” she said.
Bell said the process to create the exhibit was such a moving experience it challenged her personaly.
“For me the hardest part was reading the Truth and Reconciliation [Commission] report because I really got a sense of what happened,” she said. “And it took a year to build this. I was in and out of reading it and there was one incident that I read and I was so haunted it took me three weeks of just processing what I had read it was so difficult and that was just me reading it it wasn’t me living it.”
