Imagining a Scene on Prince Edward Island: Freestyle LMAC Collage

agmoore in #hive-174695 • last year

A great thing about Hive is the people I meet here, and @redheadpei is one of my favorite. She has shared many photos of Prince Edward Island, where she makes her home. She has shared anecdotes about the animals she has come to know over the years. It is safe to say, @redheadpei inspired this collage.

freestyle redheadpei final birds.png

The template came from a photo she contributed to LIL, the LMAC Image Library. The title of this picture was Sunset Reflection at A Red Sand Beach On P.E.I. It was such a beautiful, evocative shot that imagining a scene was easy.

@redheadpei's Photo
redheadpei's photo.png
LIL Gallery

I imagined the First Peoples who lived on Prince Edward Island. I imagined a young girl rowing back from a rendezvous, perhaps with a forbidden lover, and the father, Chief, of course, waiting on shore.

We can all imagine how the story might go from here. We've all read or seen the play Romeo and Juliet. Star-crossed young love--it's as old as love itself.

I looked up the different animals that might be near. The bluejay is the Provincial Bird of the island, and is also tameable, so I put a bluejay on the Chief's shoulder. The Goshawk is a 'priority species', so I put two of them in the sky. Skunk and deer are native to the island, so I included them on shore.

I changed the sky, to make it more forbidding...because there is the suggestion of impending trouble in the tension between father and daughter. I added a headdress to the chief to make him look like a chief, like someone with authority. Plus, this element added a bit of interest to the figure. Also, the original figure needed more color so I added a Lunapic filter to it.

The First People of Prince Edward Island were the Mi’kmaq.

Reconstruction of Mi'kmaq Homesite
Mi'kmaq PEI first people.jpg
Nova Scotia Archives, public domain

Mi'kmaq have lived on the island for more than 10,000 years. Because many precontact (before Europeans came) coastal lands are under water now, an accurate description of Mi'kmaq society before that time is not certain. However, the descriptions derived from colonial Europeans provide the following information.

The Mi'kmaq social organization was centered around extended family, "which could consist of a leader (sagamaw) of a group of related people including the sagamaw's immediate family, his married children and their families, and other relatives who lived with him". Linguistically, the Mi'kmaq are part of the Algonkian family.

At times, it is believed several groups would join together and form bands that might be as large as two or three hundred people. Leadership of the bands was earned, mostly by the ability to resolve disputes, make decisions and form alliances.

Member of Mi'kmaq Group
Mi'kmaq tribe member public.jpg
Nova Scotia Archives, public domain.

It is reported that 1,405 'registered' Mi'kmaq live on Prince Edward Island today. According to the Canadian Encyclopedia, "At no time were the Mi'kmaq conquered, nor was the land surrendered, given up or ceded. Therefore, all of Mi'kma’ki, including PEI, was, and still is, Mi'kmaq territory". The Mi'kmaq are actively disputing land claims. It is their position that they never bartered or signed away their rights to the island. This is an issue that dogs many original peoples of both Canada and the U. S.

My Collage

I thank the following LIL contributors, without whom my collage would look very different. Thanks for the great pictures!

LIL
@sekorama
Canoe
https://www.lmac.gallery/lil-gallery-image/11194

@yaziris
flower
https://www.lmac.gallery/lil-gallery-image/7645

@muelli
sky
https://www.lmac.gallery/lil-gallery-image/8491

@redheadpei
Red sand beach
https://www.lmac.gallery/lil-gallery-image/6791
and
Bluejay
https://www.lmac.gallery/lil-gallery-image/6860

@alex2alex
deer
https://www.lmac.gallery/lil-gallery-image/11983

I also contributed one photo:
@agmoore
Fawn statue
https://www.lmac.gallery/lil-gallery-image/8995

And I thank the following public domain contributors for their very helpful images.

Public domain sites

Figure on the shore
Boston Public Library
https://unsplash.com/photos/F_wprMEm4lQ

Figure in the canoe
SyliviaP_design
https://pixabay.com/de/illustrations/frau-tube-h%C3%BCbsch-sch%C3%B6n-haut-figur-1070507/

Skunk
cliker free vector images
https://pixabay.com/de/vectors/skunk-heimt%C3%BCckisch-307154/

Headdress
DieterG
https://pixabay.com/de/illustrations/indianerschmuck-kopfschmuck-bunt-1144659/

Hawks
rzreik
https://pixabay.com/de/photos/falke-flying-hawk-fliegend-flug-5570683/

You can see that LIL, the LMAC Image Library, was an essential part of my collage creating this week. Anyone on Hive can contribute to the library and everyone can borrow from the library. Learn about the procedure here.

Everyone is welcome to make a collage. Join the fun. Although the contest, which usually runs weekly, is taking a summer break, the community is still welcoming freestyle collages. The contest will resume in September.

Peace and health to all.

Thank you for reading my blog
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last year in #hive-174695 by agmoore

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jsph last year

Beautiful collage, pretty much represents the culture where much of the world comes from, the natives, I really like to see this kind of thing to reminisce, excellent work!

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agmoore last year

Thank you, @jsph! I love doing these collages. Quite relaxing.

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esthersanchez last year

Beautiful composition full of details and with a very special story @agmoore. I love the color of the sky in contrast with the sea. It adds strength and at the same time beauty.
Best regards

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agmoore last year

Thank you for that gracious comment, @esthersanchez. You are such a good artist, always with intelligent visually stunning designs. If you like my collage, I am pleased indeed :)

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esthersanchez last year

It's a pleasure to comment inspired by the art before you!
Have a beautiful day!

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djbravo last year

I myself am trying to make collages and learn it because when the pictures are put together it makes a much more beautiful picture the way we see it, you also put a lot of effort into it.

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agmoore last year

Just jump in. That's what I did. Every week I learned something else. There are great artists in the community. Not me. I just love to do it. The effort comes from the pleasure creating brings me.

Thanks for your comment, @djbravo

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rafzat last year

This is a very wonderful history and it is so good to learn that from you
Thanks for sharing!

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agmoore last year

Thank you, @rafzat. I am curious and share what I learn on my blogging journey.

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redheadpei last year

Thanks A.G. I really appreciate your kind words. You are one of my favorites and your collages are so interesting and informative.

A beautiful tranquil scene, like most of the Island. Love the red sky and the chief looking out on the water. The skunk is perfect. Unfortunately their are no deer on PEI. At one time some deer were brought in and put in with the buffalo but now only the buffalo are at Buffaloland Park. I had heard that when the snow came the deer were able to jump the fence surrounding Buffaloland and escape.

Take care my friend and have a wonderful week. 💕

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agmoore last year

Hello my friend,

How did I get the deer wrong?? I was sure I read that there were deer. Anyway, they look nice there :))

You do inspire me, in more than one way. Sometimes we don't realize how our actions influence others. 🌻

It is a good week. I hope the same is true for you. Thanks for the kind words 🌈

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edgarafernandezp last year

Siempre es bueno conocer este tipo de cosas, al igual que aqui, hay muchos nativos que aun defienden sus tierras, (estaba buscando la noticia pero no la consegui), recuerdo que lei que un grupo de indigenas habian bloqueado la via de un pueblo y cobrar por el transito porque segun está dentro de su territorio, fue realemnte un problema.

Es un collage encantador ya que te inspiraste en @redheadpei, saludos @agmoore :D

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agmoore last year

Hello my friend, @edgarafernandezp

We humans seem to suffer from myopia when it comes to history. We pick and choose the facts that please us. Across the Americas there were people who lived on the lands taken over by Europeans. Not only their homes, but their cultures were erased, in many cases. That is an inconvenient fact for many.

Thank you for reading and for the lovely comment, @edgarafernandezp

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futuremind last year

Great point.

I like to outline this to people who refer to this as the land of the free.

History is written by the winning side, and I remember the scolding and manipulative wording that would occur in classrooms whenever hands raised with questions like "how was this land peacefully "discovered" with these bloody facts that are being presented?"

I now see the schools as indoctrination camps, albeit the programming worked well on me until I finished a four year enlistment in the armed forces.

People really do have a hard time digesting the truth.

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agmoore last year

I also fell for the line when I was very, very young. But by the time I became a teacher (in my forties), I knew better. I was a social studies teacher, and would start each semester with this warning to my students: Don't believe what you read, don't believe me. Even if I think I'm telling the truth, I could be wrong. Then I would bring in newspapers of the day and show them the different headlines and pictures on the front pages. They could see how the editorializing began even before a word was written, merely by what 'news' appeared on the front page, and where it was placed.

Sorry about that military service. My husband did 13 months in Vietnam (conscripted). A sobering dose of reality. He said, when my son was born, that his son would never fight in any war.

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futuremind last year

I think that's a brilliant and clever way to deliver truth while working inside the belly of the beast.

Sorry about that military service.

Thank you @agmoore, I never fully had a positive perception about the military, more of a programmed sense of duty, because I always believed in peace and most young guys that go in feel the same way and are manipulated into a sense of protecting peace with violence. It's a very crazy twisted manipulation of perception and works very well. We're naturally instinctual about protecting/defending our loved ones and the land we dwell on with our loved ones, so with the right manipulative ploy, the invader loses sight of the fact that they are the invader. It is fear based Hegelian dialectic psychology.

I might have never broke through the illusion without the experience however. They told us in boot camp "We are going to break down the layers of programming you're under and build you back up in the manner of which we want you to be."

There was very little couth in delivering this message, and I am not sure if it is still that way in the military today. I don't think it matters because it is still the same control mechanism.

I don't agree with military draft, so I am sorry your husband had to go through that, because the draft is a clear cut removal of free will in my opinion. I cannot see it any other way, and is contradictory to land of the free propaganda.

For me it was like a family tradition of first born sons to join, and I thought I was doing a great thing, until things started clicking.

I could probably write a book on this topic but it wouldn't be a top seller.

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redheadpei last year

Thanks @edgarafernandezp. A lot of history between the indigenous people and the White Man. We have apologized for the past injustices from our forefathers but it never seems to be enough.

Prince Edward Island is known in the Mi'kmaq language of its historic indigenous occupants as Abegweit or Epekwitk, roughly translated as "land cradled in the waves".

At present, there are the Indigenous name underneath on many of the town and street signs. PEI has tried to keep the respect for the land that the indigenous people have always held.

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