I Want to Hold You Longer

Sense Cover
Artist: Sarah Sense

Cover: Montclair Eye by Sarah Sense

Sense(Clip):

“Making work with historical, colonial maps is a comment on erasure.

When a viewer engages with the maps and finds new information about the land through historical maps, it points to the position of government and purposeful erasure. These actions of erasing are politically charged, and therefore searching the archive for documentation of unknown histories is also a political statement. Indigenous lands have and continue to be colonized with violence and genocide.“

It is a horrific history that is being repeated and we are witnessing today through several media outlets. I believe that for this reason, government entities are blocking or preventing historical information of racism and genocide as a means to push current agendas of colonizing.

In contrast, the more we can expose about the past will hopefully guide people toward the realities of North America and the violence that we are currently encouraging and inflicting on Palestine, Venezuela, at home with ICE and with other sovereign nations.

Erasing the past or ignoring contemporary Indigenous people in North America is warfare, as a means to manipulate people and disrupt perceptions.”