The Last Goodbye 

2001
Brazilian Soapstone
42.5 x 25.5 x 42.0

Collection of Alex De Figueiredo

I clearly remember when this took place - my mother sitting with my older brother and sister, David and Martha, just before they left for the Mission school in Aklavik. David was five years old at the time and Martha was just a little older. It was a scene that was repeated later on when my older brothers and I were sent off to residential school. But this time, it was sadder for my mother, it would be three years that David and Martha would be gone. They left in 1955 and we didn't see them again until the later part of 1958. 

Those three years had a permanent impact on my brothers life.