Frozen Chains of Childhood
"Perhaps over time we can melt these chains that once bound our people..."
Frozen Chains of Childhood is an ethnographic photograph that reflects upon the isolating and immobilizing pain Indigenous children endured in the residential school system. Bound, isolated, frozen and neglected are just a few words to describe the childhood experiences of many residential school children. Through cultural reclamation, decolonizing education, and reconciliaction, we can melt these chains that once bound Indigenous cultures and peoples.
"Frozen Chains of Childhood" was selected as the winning art pieces to be featured on the cover of York University's online ejournal "Revue YOUR Review” alongside an editorial written about the work.