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 strive to operate beyond the binary of colonialism in their art. Martineau and Ritskes characterize Indigenous art as "the creative expression of imagination, not the brutality of colonial control, and it is through Indigenous art's defiant movement against repeating such violence that it recovers the spirit of ancestral memory and place, and establishes new routes for re-emergence and return".