Clinton Naina | Hisitage is a Lie

2024

acrylic on canvas

51 x 36 cm

stretched canvas, unframed

Hisitage is a lie, it is not my Heritage, it belongs to the invader, the colonialists,
manufactured to dominate, manufactured to control, manufactured to conform, manufactured to comply.

To rules of the ruling party’s of colonialism, imperialism and capitalism, built upon unseeded lands of first sovereign nations.

Hisitage is his, not mine, and will not, and can not ever be mine.

The only thing that is mine, is the land that it stands upon, and the sky above it, for my heritage is not a constructed colonial cultural ambition, originating from afar, architectural designed for assimilation and conformity.

My heritage comes from lore, king, the land and everything in it, upon it, and above it, that’s all, that’s the fundamental difference between, “Hisitage and my Heritage”.

Clinton Naina
2024.