Michelle McGeough discusses Apprentice and Shaman.
Michelle McGeough discusses Apprentice and Shaman.
Well it's generally known that Morrisseau refused labels of any kind is performances of indigeneity often confounded us with contradictory or seemingly contradictory utterances and behaviors. Morrisseau was once described by his age and as being wildly experimental in a sexuality. It is important to note that the notion that sex was only an act to engage in for the purposes of procreation is a Euro Canadian concept of time to Judeo-Christian believe that engaging in sex for pleasure was a sin. One may be tempted to see these paintings by Morrisseau as slowly homophobic but they are much more complex until a much deeper story.