On telling the truth unflinchingly: Climate catastrophe and colonialism

Ngadi Smart is a Sierra Leonean visual artist interested in race, representation, cultural identity and gender. Ngadi originally created this work for an Atmos magazine article written by Dr. Esme Murdock, in which the author wrote: “The horrors of the last 500 years on Turtle Island (North America) – and the planet – are obvious, well-studied and well-known. These histories live in the minds, hearts, bodies and spirits of the global populations who have borne the brunt and lived the apocalypses that white supremacist colonisation, imperialism and capitalism have created and continue to create.”