Kim John

Red Dresses are a Meaningful Art Installation, Not Forgotten Clothing

By: Alison Wick, Arts Editor All images courtesy of Kim John On May 5, the unofficial National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG), SFU music student Toni Yake (Mohawk) and health sciences student Kim John (Coast Salish) hung seven red dresses in the trees off University Road East on Burnaby Mountain. The bright red dresses were hauntingly beautiful, as the colour red simultaneously evokes femininity, beauty, and blood. Amongst the mossy green hues of the forest, the red dresses and their slight movement in the wind delicately demanded our attention. The dresses are pieces…

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