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“My mother supported my every artistic ambition. I don't wonder why. I'm beyond grateful. But when I think of my grandparents barely surviving the war, I feel so pampered. What an indulgence to be an artist. So this is it, this is all I can offer, to the living and to the dead.”

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We All Wish For Deadly Force

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“The ‘modern’, ‘rational’, ‘scientific’, Christian European coloniser could not get himself to acknowledge that the lived experience and traditional knowledge of native societies gathered over millennia could teach him more than a thing or two about living in harmony with nature as opposed to merely salvaging what remained of it in the name of ‘sustainable’ development.”

“Iiwa enkop enye, niturr inkurman enyenak, Itagueta ilpolosien lenyenak, nintipirik imbat e enkuset enye. Itara olmoruo lenye metua, nindaaki oliaisho enye. Ironya ilkejek lenyenak, niintoi inkonyek enyenak, Nintashal isederi enyenak too ilkiyio. Ore te eyieunoto niyieu ninye, nintadoyio inkilani enyenak, Ninchopoki inkarn nemeidim ninye aipoto.”

“You cannot end dehumanization while abiding by the narrative established by the dehumanizers, you cannot end a pandemic while playing by the rules of the virus - you cannot heal a war-inflicted planet while studying from the rulebook of colonialism, that planted the germs of most of those wars in the first place.”