AMANDA PELTIER
WHAT ROLE DOES ART PLAY IN YOUR LIFE?
Art is my freedom, my peace. I create art for those that I love. When I draw, paint, crochet, or do beadwork, my mind is clear and my soul is at peace. I can express myself in ways that don’t require words.
2023 Identity 2 Exhibition
IDENTITY STATEMENT
When the judge handed me my sentence, every identity I had ever known of myself was torn to shreds. Many years into my incarceration, I realized that I am who I am. Nothing can change that; not my circumstances, my surroundings, or my role in existence.I am a strong, resilient, beautiful and intelligent woman, mother, daughter, sister and friend. No man, not judge nor jury, can take away what the Creator gave me. The sections of my torn identity, like the medicine wheel, represent my seasons of wisdom and understanding my perfectly imperfect self.
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