homecoming

Faye HeavyShield

Cultural affiliations: Blackfoot Confederacy from the Kainaiwa (Blood) Nation, Canada

homecoming, 2017 - 2017

Material/technique: digital print; paper

Credit line: Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts

Accession number: EL2025.012

On display: Long Ellis Gallery

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Bold Women

This work portrays empty children’s shoes accompanied by bits of prairie grass, or shards of ground. The shoes and the ground become interchangeable, evoking both absence and presence, as well as homecoming. Faye HeavyShield notes it is “the home where they came from and where they return.” The physical absence of the children may serve as a stand-in for the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) whose lives have been taken across Canada and elsewhere.