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Vaughn (Damian Pitt) and Lena (Dannielle Hall) come to a cornfield. Both hungry, they decide to help themselves to the crop. The farmer catches them in the act. A heated exchange between Vaughn and the farmer leads to Lena questioning Vaughn’s motivations.
Curator’s notes
Vaughn, who says that the farmer stole the land in the first place, challenges the moral currency held by the farmer as owner of the land. The characters helping themselves to the corn excess that, in Indigenous cultural society would have been shared, serves as a point of departure between Indigenous and non-Indigenous culture. The different historical perspective on land ownership is an ongoing one.
