Blankets
Did you have a favourite baby blanket? Blankets have always been a symbol of comfort, safety and security. But sometimes they are more than that. The AIDS Memorial Quilt weighs 54 tons and spans 1.2 million square feet. The Witness Blanket in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg is smaller, at 40 feet, but no less powerful. It has the legal status of a living entity and displays hundreds of items representing more than 150,000 indigenous children that were removed from their families to Indian Residential Schools for assimilation into white society. Blankets can be living memories.
— Wayne Visser
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