This installation was by far one of my favorite projects. It was a reminder to us that there was always a tension between art as aesthetics and art as politics—and therefore a social responsibility to consider whenever creating something new.
I chose to show the shallow ways in which mainstream Canadian culture engages with my own Inuit culture. The point being the real need for empathy if we're ever going to reconcile as peoples. I demonstrated this shallow engagement by the contrast between the idealized cardboard inukshuk with a living breathing on-going adaptation of an inukshuk. The flags represented mainstream narratives of Inuit culture that would inevitably lead you to the idealized inukshuk instead of the real thing.