Sacco tells the tale of the residential school system largely through
the first-person stories of those who attended it. Renderings of them as
adults, speaking to Sacco, appear amid drawings of their younger selves
experiencing what they’re describing. The work becomes an actualization
of their memories, in the process visualizing the haunting grip of
historical trauma. In one passage, interviewee Paul Andrew recounts the
physical brutality: “In residential school you got hit and you never
know why you got hit,” he says, as images of his 8- or 9-year-old self
being slapped ricochet across the middle of the page. Below, Sacco
places portraits of the boy, as he’s being yelled at by a nun and a
priest, side by side with the adult Andrew, their faces set in a
similarly pained expression. Boxes of words hover in the space between
them, as Andrew recalls how the abuse was also emotional and spiritual:
“You’re not good enough. That’s why we got to remake you. Because you’re
not good enough.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/joe-sacco-paying-land-review/
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