THE GLITCH: EP 20 - Christopher and Raymond Sawatis
Virtual Artist: Christopher and Raymond Sawatis
Christopher and Raymond Sawatis Born 4 minutes apart on June 19th 1923 on St Regis island in the St Lawrence river at the Akwesasne Mohawk reservation Canada, Christopher and Raymond Sawatis were the 2 middle children (twins) of 7 and survivors of residential school. Details of what the twins experienced is limited as most of the information known of them, comes from stories from their children and grand children. Due to the recent exposure of the Canadian residential schools we know that it was less a place of education and more a place of control and horror as the main objective was to “kill the native in the child” with stripping them of their identity and culture by changing their names, cutting their hair, forcing them to speak only in English or French and not allowing them to practice any native traditions. Twins on the other hand, were exposed to some of the worst experiments in order to test the limits of the native body. Sleep deprivation and starvation were the most commonly tested experiments… and the least horrific. Its not often that you hear of both twins surviving but the boys were removed from residential school along with their siblings and brought back home by their parents after their 5th year.
After a few days of relaxation, silence and sleep the children woke to a table full of art supplies, dolls and other toys. They twins went right to the pencils and paper, went back in their room and wernt seen again until dinner that night. The next morning, upon entering the twins room when they were outside playing, their mother came across the drawings and painting they had been working on. Though slightly horrified by some of the pieces, she noticed something strange as the pictures fit together like they should have been drawn on the same paper. After suggesting the boys work together on some of their drawings everything starting coming together. It wasn’t until years later that the boys had access to more paints and colors for their style become finalized.
Told to their grandchildren that they “Fell in with the wrong crowd” the twins (with their dual citizenship) and their friends all enlisted in the United States Army. The information of what the twins experienced was told by friends that were with them through the war. They fought for months, lost friends and brothers and some how made it out without a physical scratch. It wasn’t until they began freeing people from concentration camps where the real imprint was left when the twins uncovered rooms where horrific experiments had taken place. As they broke downs doors and removed people from the buildings they discovered what turned out to be an operating room where doctors would do horrific experiments on men women and children….Twins seeming to be a popular selection. Christopher and Raymond were found passed out at the foot of the operating table hold the mutilated bodies of twin brothers. After being released by the medical team to return back to duty, the brothers began going AWOL, it didn’t seem to scare them as the fighting was over and they were on their way home. This period would be the rebirth of their art as both used it as a means to cope with the war and the relived experience in the camps.
Upon returning back to Akwesasne the twins decided to help repair their childhood home and reside there as their parents and siblings had bought new homes on the main land the twins had no interest in being around so many people. For years they both fought night terrors and visions, reliving the horrors they faced as children and soldiers. It was 1953 when they would finally find their demons wrangled with the help of another set of twins they had known since child hood called the “Oakes sisters” Lilly and Susan, who had also survived the same treatment at residential school as they did. Both couples went on to marry and create 2 beautiful families that shared the house on the island until their passing in 2020. Their art is best described like a “light at the end of the tunnel” as one brother would paint and draw darker figures/objects and scenes as the other would add brighter imagery to the piece. Each painting instantly caught your eye with the welcoming scenic portions and would slowly draw you in to darker elements of the piece hidden in the details. From an angelic scene in an ominous forest to faces and hands protruding from the darkness, their ever-evolving style was unique and thought provoking, making you question if what you were looking at was a scene or dispare, bliss or both.
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