PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — An exhibit in Salem is putting front and center the faces too often forgotten of missing and murdered Indigenous people.
Artist and advocate Amanda Freeman is the mind behind the exhibit AMPKWA.Her photography features people with red handprints painted over their mouths.The artist says the goal is to highlight issues often left invisible in communities, including the lack of resources provided to indigenous communities and generational trauma.
“When trauma goes unnamed, it doesn’t disappear,” Freeman said in a statement. “It shows up in addiction. It shows up in domestic violence. It shows up in instability. It shows up in silence. And silence is not neutral.”…