Siksika Nation artist to design Canada-Afghanistan war monument
A Siksika Nation Indigenous artist has been chosen to design a nationwide monument for Canada’s mission in Afghanistan.
Adrian Stimson and his staff have been engaged on the challenge for years, and he says the idea of individuality is integral to the memorial’s objective.
“A lot of monuments don’t have the names of all the soldiers involved, and this one does. It was the importance of remembering them in this particular conflict,” he advised CityNews.
“If anybody goes to a monument, that sort of special moment of seeing their loved one’s name is something that really resonated with me.”
The medicine-wheel-inspired monument will characteristic the names of all 158 Canadian navy members misplaced within the battle.
Stimson says the truth of various experiences is essential within the construction’s design.
“We’re going to use a digital strategy through QR codes and stuff that are embedded in the space for people to access various perspectives,” he defined.
“And then you have the two walls with the Canadian perspective and the Afghan perspective.”
Stimson is a former member of the Canadian Armed Forces Artists Program. In 2010, he travelled to Afghanistan, the place he discovered in regards to the struggle and the each day lives of Canadian troopers.
“For me, right away, I was thinking of the base. Home base and that sense of home,” Stimson recalled.
“I think, certainly soldiers, when they’re in the theatre of war, are thinking of home.”
The design was chosen by greater than 10,000 individuals, lots of whom served in Afghanistan or had been associated to armed forces members.
Stimson hopes the set up will create a chance for training.
“I hope they gain a greater understanding of the conflict itself and how Canada was involved. And the loss, of course, of life and remembering those soldiers. The fallen,” he stated.
Construction on the Ottawa-based monument is predicted to start in two to a few years.
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