Mural Workshop

The murals are designed to explore what each group of children have been making and sharing, up until this point, through electronic images, and to go from the virtual to the physical world: where the children can feel, smell, touch, appreciate the colors and play with the image dimensions.

This interaction starts by printing the pictures and stills from the videos shot by the children and laying out on the table with the other painting materials. The children are naturally curious to look through the photographs take by the other group. It is very different for them to look at these pictures and videos through the iPods, than to look at them printed in 8x10 format. Children start to ask questions like “Who is this?” “Where is that?” “Who took that picture?”, as they get, little by little, they familiarize themselves with the other children while interacting with the same media as before but through a different medium.

The murals created by the Cree and Inuit children and the one created by the workshop artists were then exposed at the community gym, which, to this day, is one of the few spaces Inuit and Cree share in Kuujjuarapik-Whapmagoostui. They were left there after the project closure. The other shared facilities include the airport, the restaurant the grocery store and the bar.