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Meryl Mcmaster's In Between Worlds

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Meryl McMaster’s series In Between Worlds from 2010 to 2015 portrays a sense of identity Indigenous people who come from mixed cultural groups. McMaster descends from the Plains Cree and Siksika Nation on her father’s side while she is of Euro-Canadian, more specifically English and Dutch on her mother’s. Through photography and performance McMaster expresses her cultural identity, using an array of accessories to comment on these themes (“Meryl McMaster”, 2017) These accessories are used as traditional symbols in order “to make the point that identity categories are provisional and in constant transformation.” (Walker, 2016) McMaster’s work aims “to bring together my experience in nature, which was a major catalyst in my life, and the ideas

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