Walking with our Sisters – A great exhibit if you missed it

Photo: The Exhibit is set in the shape of a heart and the vamps are set as if they are dancing; all set in actions of love and hope.

Christie Belcourt approached FNUniv Fine Arts staff to see if they would be interested in the idea of the recent installation from Walking With Our Sisters. Katherine Boyer saw it as a wonderful project to be apart of and signed on right away to help with the installation. For Katherine it is her professional job to do the installation. Yet, for her the exhibit has been touching and moving so much power and spirit lives with this exhibit and has inevitable shaped her in a new way now.

The lack of news coverage for the stories of missing women is not really how Katherine would focus on but how the missing women are depicted in the news. To see their spirit and their personality and the ones that they were loved and knowing who they were makes such a difference when you are trying to connect with the issues Along with the justice of the whole issue and the political agenda that arises from the Exhibit. It is not just a topic, it’s the people and their lives and their families.

Katherine has been personally fortunate that no one in her family and circle have been taken. For the community that she very much respects as her own it touches her very much. “All that we have given our sisters, our mothers, our daughters, they need to know who we are. They are still all with us and are related to us. “

What I try to impress on those who are outside of our community the most is that this exhibit is not a political statement. This exhibit is messages of love, thought, remembrance and that when certain cases are being blown up in the media that woman has a family still and that they are still mourning and that despite the fact the news wants the story. The family is still at a place of loss and tragedy and mourning and that usually really connects people. The level of loss is universal in dealing with it.

The Exhibit should bring celebration and love even with the loss and mourning associated with it. The Exhibit is set in the shape of a heart and the vamps are set as if they are dancing. All set in actions of love and hope.

Story by Katryna Smith