Indigenous artists attempt to work outside of the binary of colonialism in their art. Martineau and Ritskes describe Indigenous art as "the generative expression of creativity, not the violence of colonial domination, and it is in Indigenous art's resistant motion to disavow the repetition of such violence that it recuperates the spirit of ancestral memory and place, and forges new pathways of re-emergence and return".
Indigenous artists endeavor to move beyond the binary of colonialism in their artwork. Martineau and Ritskes describe Indigenous art as "a creative expression of imagination rather than a manifestation of colonial domination, and it is through this art's resistance against repeating such violence that it recovers ancestral memory and place, and establishes new pathways for re-emergence and return".