Shelley Niro, a member of the Mohawk, Turtle Clan, is known for working with controversial and serious subjects relating to Indigenous cultures and their relationship with colonialism. However, while her work focuses in on these topics, she uses subtlety and humour to construct her messages. This piece, the Shirt, is a series of connecting photographs which spell out a narrative. The piece’s relation to irony and identity is its focus on the colonialization of the North American areas that were originally home to the Indigenous communities and the concept of colonialism’s take-everything and leave-nothing mindset. It delivers this concept with a humours edge to make the impact of the message stronger. Essentially it starts with these images