Mr. Speaker, as part of Québec Ateliers Ouverts, artists from the Quebec City area submitted their most recent artistic offerings for the scrutiny of the public.
A young and talented artist, Agnès Riverin, combined words and images to present an unusually sensitive rendering of the wounds inflicted by war. Here is a short extract:
I have come from the shadows to breathe in the light. I know that we must bind up the wounds of so many wrongs. That we must pay the price of so much madness, those who steal freedom and stifle the cries.
We will no longer die Tortured into silence. We will find expression for our collective solitude breaking down the distances that keep us apart.
And in the night through which we pass, we will kindle the memory of a world not yet born.