In “Underbelly” I am exploring belonging and exclusion as well as the relationship between German guilt and de-colonial healing in my adopted home in Canada. The piece is part of my collection “The Indelible Mark” which looks at ways human belonging is affected by trauma - at the level of family, but also, more broadly, of society and culture. It expresses my belief, that suppression and injustice hurts a community as a whole, not only the people on whose exclusion from opportunity we thrive.