What is your mission?
To safeguard the realm of freedom of thought and expression, to excel and fascinate, through painting!
A little bit about me..
I am a child of Chinese immigrant parents who came from China and Hong Kong in the 70s. Their past and upbringing was riffed with a hardship they never talk about, but I do know they worked hard to get here to Canada, to enjoy the freedoms that we do.
I grew up in a strict household with a tight schedule of extra homework and logistically practical lessons to build me up for survival, none of them made to be very fun. My parents never wanted to go back to their old life and wanted to be sure my brother and I would be set up with a successful one, I can’t blame them.
Despite all that, Art has always been an outlet for me, a pillar to my being, a way to be true in the world, a place to express myself and have some fun, so when this organization approached me with the project, I couldn’t say no.
Rights and freedoms must be exercised to be protected. These are civil liberties the majority of us don’t think about much on the day to day, but people have died to enjoy these freedoms, and I don’t take them for granted.
It is a children’s story about how naturalized gardens came to be legal in Canada, and how they came to be a protected right to freedom of expression. The story interested me in that I’ve seen naturalized gardens all around my neighbourhood, it wasn’t something I thought was ever illegal. They seem harmless enough, and are likely better for the environment, but individuals had to fight for that right, and in the end they won, under the premise of freedom expression, which really is the search for truth. You can’t seek truth if you don’t protect the freedom to think, act and express. This is how we learn to get along with one another, to solve the world’s biggest problems, by not being afraid, to tackle the unknown head-on, to have the ability to ask those uncomfortable questions.
The book is projected to finish by late February. I invite you to explore the CCF, defending the rights and freedoms of all Canadians, here is their website:
#childrensbook #freedomofexpression
LISA NG ART 