We were forbidden to practice our culture. It is empowering to know that our cultural heritage has endured, and is alive and thriving today. It's encouraging to see powwows becoming more popular in contemporary society. As we become aware and educated about our cultural heritage, we will become more and more comfortable with our own reality. With this cultural and spiritual renaissance comes strong feelings of pride and determination.
All art is experimental, and comes from the deepest reaches of one's psyche.
This process is as old as mankind itself, and this experience of image making ties one artist to the other, past and present. Dennis Bruce Things to Come acrylic on matboard 81.0 x 101.6 cm 1992 Saskatchewan Arts Board Permanent Collection Things to Come depicts a Native figure wearing a blanket. Diseases and the way life for Aboriginals has changed since the coming of the Europeans. Dennis Bruce Born into this Culture acrylic on matboard 81.0 x 101.6 cm 1992 Saskatchewan Arts Board Permanent Collection Born into this Culture reflects images that were familiar as I was growing up. My understanding of what an Indian was came from all that I read in books, watched on television and learned in school.