British Street Artist based in Berlin Sam Worthington aka Wasp Elder, was recently in Canada invited to take part of the Festival Inspire, an international, free, week-long, non-profit street arts festival in the city of Moncton.
The mural is based on a photography of Molly Muise, who is one of the first Mi‘kmaq women to be documented. As explained by Sam, the Mi‘kmaq are a first nations people indigenous to Canada and it was for him an honour to meet people from the Mi‘kmaq community who came and gave them a ritualistic blessing on site. While painting, he decided to rise their flag on the lift as a sign of solidarity to indigenous people all over the world and what they stand for:
“We must protect water from privatisation and land being destroyed, we must also continue to hold those accountable for the mistreatment of indigenous people and continue to share information and have open discussion with each other”. – Wasp Elder
A lovely mural tribute. Images by Louis-Philippe Chiasson and Yvon Hache (aerial).
About the artist
Author: Fran
Founder and editor of Urbanite. Street Art lover who after the finishing her MA thesis on the Mexican and Norwegian muralist movement in the 1920-50s, developed a fascination for street art and graffiti that eventually led to collaborations with different art blogs, including the creation of this one.
