The Children’s Series Exhibit

The Spirits of Native Children Rise to Transform the World’s Consciousness

When the first news stories
came flooding into our consciousness,
telling of the mass graves of Native children found at
government/church-controlled residential schools
it was as though the universe took a breath
and held it:
stopping humanity in its tracks.

These paintings tell the story of the revelations,
of the purpose of their coming at this time,
and of our ability
to heal ourselves and
transform
the consciousness of our world.

By Rose Imai

2021

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The Children’s Series #1
First 215 Revealed

The Children’s Series #2
The Roar of Anguish

The Children’s Series #3
Bringing in the Healing

The Children’s Series #5
Transforming Poison into Medicine

The outcry, denials, grief, disbelief moved like a tsunami,
shattering whatever lay in its path
reaching into the human heart, breaking it open,
telling each of us

we cannot continue living,
distracted, insensitive, desire-driven lives,
numb to the small and great violences
we visit on The Earth, all her forms of life,
ourselves, and one another.

The Children’s Series #6
The Horse of the East – Bringer of Light

The Children’s Series #7
The Horse of the North – The Healing Winds of Truth

The Children’s Series #8
The Horse of the West – The Place of Transformation/Where Answers Live

The Children’s Series #9
The Horse of the South – The Place of New Beginnings / Purity

The Children’s Series #10
9 Precedes Transformation

There is a strength and beauty
resting dormant within us.
We have the capacity
to take the poison of the past
and transmute it
into the medicine of a humane future.