#i had to go trawling through my phone to find the placard so i misgendered Miss Chief. i am literally a little distraught

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It's called Artist and Model by Kent Monkman!

From the placard I took a picture of:

"Kent Monkman Cree, born 1965, Ontario, Canada; lives and works in Toronto

Artist and Model

2012 Acrylic paint on canvas

Kent Monkman plays with conventions from art history to reevaluate settler narratives about Indigenous bodies. He combines historical subject matter with queer identity, symbolized by Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, his gender-fluid alter ego. In this painting, Miss Chief assertively pins early-1900s photographer Edward Curtis to a tree in a St. Sebastian pose with arrows from her Louis Vuitton quiver. Monkman's layers of cultural appropriation disrupt Euro-American representation of Native subjects.

religious themed art is rad bc you see a bound nearly naked guy covered in bloody wounds and it could be a 200 year old oil painting by a god-fearing european man who died of consumption in his 30s OR it was drawn 2 months ago by a 20-something queer ex-catholic with religious trauma and a lot of fucked up kinks