Title: Helicopter Seed

A creative written to talk about the meaning of right and freedom in Canada.

Title: All Colours

A drawing regarding everyone deserved to be treated equally

Title: A Canadian Freedom

The Charter is the basis of why Canada is a free and democratic nation. It gives us the power and privilege to be protected as a citizen. In this artwork, titled A Canadian Freedom, I used the concept of puzzle pieces. Four people assemble these puzzle pieces: the judge, police, and the two citizens. The way they put together the puzzle pieces symbolizes the relationship between Canadian citizens and their government. It signifies how the Canadian government negotiates its rights to their people. The yellow box and the symbols of the puzzle pieces symbolize the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Much like puzzle pieces, our rights are complicated. It is because our rights change over time. The puzzle pieces are painted blue to symbolize our unity, while the purple represents our dignity. The colour green is used to express hope in the background. It shows that our Charter encourages optimism for the future

For my Charter Art, I decided to do an animation. In this animation, the charter is being blown by(invisible) wind, then morphs into a hijab and lands on the head of a girl. This represents the freedom of religion that the charter provides to us. I decided to use islam to show freedom of religion because 1. I’m a Muslim and 2. Because in many countries around the world, muslims are not allowed to outwardly express their religion (including in Quebec), and I wanted to show that the charter is against oppressing religious expression. In the background of the animation ina masjid, or mosque, which is where Muslims go to pray (it’s like a church but for muslims). I put that there because it connects to the muslim girl standing there and to the theme of “freedom of religion”. We’re allowed to build mosques and places of worship in Canada because we’re provided with the freedom of religion, which I’m grateful for.

This is a poem of what the Charter means to me.