COMING SOON

In my new body of work, Cultural Echoes: Tracing the Veiled Legacy, I conscientiously endeavour to present nothing but my own truth and personal narrative, irrespective of its gravity. As a member of a Southern-Eastern First Nations community, I hold a profound belief in the imperative of acknowledging the historical trajectory of my people and our cultural heritage. Within my recent artistic endeavours, I hope to confront head-on the poignant realities inherent to my identity as a mixed-race individual of Southern-Eastern Aboriginal descent.

I grapple with the enduring consequences of past injustices inflicted upon my communities, recognising that certain facets of cultural knowledge may forever elude my grasp. Consequently, in my latest body of work, I consciously restrict myself to drawing inspiration solely from a select few culturally resonant symbols and motifs that have endured within my community's collective memory.

Deliberately, I employ a technique wherein I fill the interstices between these symbols, creating bold, delineated shapes reminiscent of a blanket concealing dormant cultural knowledge. I steadfastly then reject the notion of portraying myself as authentically culturally subjective in my work, asserting the potential impossibility thereof for many within the Southern-Eastern Indigenous communities. Instead, I advocate for an unflinching acknowledgment of the somber realities and historical truths underlying my people's collective experience, acknowledging that certain cultural insights may forever remain the province of ancestral wisdom, lost to subsequent generations with the passage of time.