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Vancouver artist unveils portraits chronicling missing women
Jun 23, 2009 06:29 PM
Sunny Dhillon
THE CANADIAN PRESS
VANCOUVER – A Vancouver artist has unveiled the first in a series of portraits chronicling the city’s missing women, a “violent” depiction complete with bloody slashes along the female subject’s face.
Pamela Masik introduced “Mona” today at a small gathering in Vancouver’s Gastown neighbourhood. The unveiling took place just blocks from the city’s infamous Downtown Eastside where many of the 69 women vanished.
The eight-by-ten foot portrait depicts Mona Wilson, a First Nations sex worker who disappeared in 2001. Serial killer Robert Pickton was convicted of second-degree murder in her death, along with five others, in 2007.
Masik said her work aims to remember each of the women who disappeared from the Downtown Eastside, women who were forgotten long before they ever vanished.
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