On Sunday, June 7, we dedicated the new mural along the Avenue Road side of the church. This video shows you the beauty of the art.
Drawing from ancient Indigenous traditions of beadwork as a tool for communication, Donald Chretien’s mural speaks to the roots that nurture us at the site of the Church of the Redeemer. Notice the shift in colour of the roots to blue as they reach downward? This references an ancient creek that runs deep beneath the Church. The roots themselves represent thousands of years of Indigenous human presence in this place – the Huron-Wendat, the Petun, the Haudenosaunee, and the Anishinaabe Nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Notice how the colours shift in “waves” travelling along the wall? These colour shifts represent the four stages or “hills” of life, the four seasons, the four cardinal directions of the compass and the four colours of the Medicine Wheel.
