07/06/2024
Feel free to use as your profile picture.
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I drew this design when the news broke about the initial 215 babies being found in unmarked graves at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. To Indigenous people this wasn’t news but now the world was finally listening. I was a new mom to an almost 2 year old baby so the news hit different and I found myself crying with deeper pain than I’ve ever felt.
I decided to make a design people can use for their profile pictures which is this design right here called “Tears for the Children”. I was waking up at night crying because I felt so deeply affected as my Naanii (grandmother) was a residential school survivor. Usually when I am thinking about a new design I take a couple of hours or a few days, however long it takes to think of an idea. I wanted a visual representation of what I was feeling, what we were all feeling. We were and are mourning together.
The eyes in the design are hollow and empty but filled with grief and sadness. Tears are streaming down the face with children’s faces represented in the tears. There are lines on the forehead to show sorrow we feel when we are crying.
