At some point during Polygon Art Gallery's public conversation between visiting curator Candice Hopkins and artist Rebecca Belmore an image was screened of seven boys from a Sioux Lookout residential school watching their white teacher fish.
The photograph was taken in 1948, and the boys are dressed in blue denim, while the teacher in the distance is wearing a tailored white shirt.
This is a photograph Belmore said she has had with her a long time, and returns to often. More recently it inspired a work she made of a young boy in the water -- not watching it.
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