Listed below are pieces of work from my ECS courses that will be added throughout

 Visual Representation of My Journey to Reconciliation

To represent my story of learning, I have drawn a sketch of a road that is being overgrown by greenery. To me, the idea of a permanent path, losing its strength through deterioration caused by a break-through of the earth and its plants/growth that have freed themselves, is very similar to the story of Indigenous individuals and their own recovery. I have incorporated details into the sketch, each of them having their own meaning in relation to the link I have made between the drawing and an emotional journey one would have encountered in an effort to heal from their experience as an Indigenous person. The main symbol in the drawing is the road, which represents the path to what one might be longing to find or heal, and in this case, it is reconciliation. The road itself is completely worn down and cracking apart at one end where it has been completely overgrown by land, where the other end is still quite strong and concrete- the tracks of what once travelled on it still visible. Reasoning for the two ends of the road being so different is that, yes, there has been time and efforts to fix what has happened in the past and grow over the challenges, but there is still plenty of healing to be done and the footstep/ tracks of what has once happened are still very strong. The two ends symbolize the actions that have been laid into the minds of Indigenous peoples and the pain that has been relieved over time and grown into a beautiful form of rebuilding through recovery. Although there have been successful growths and cracks made in the road, there is still the strength of the imprint left to be broken through. Other representations are the grass, dirt, and flowers at the end of the road that have grown over the concrete. When I think of the three forms of nature as a part of the drawing, I see them as stages of healing where the dirt is a starting base to understand and work through feelings that will eventually either grow into grass or blossom into a flower. This could be looked at as the different ways one would live through a life changing event; the grass and flowers are different ways of growth in which a person might get through one thing more than they might another, and I believe there would not be an equal feeling towards everything that happens to a person but rather a mixture of growths.