Native Art - Blog Posts
“Goodbyes hurt don’t they…Uno?”
change of plans! The reversed Judgement is underway and the first chapter will be released in a few weeks!
Tenochtitlan. I started experimenting with some more colour stories: Day, Night, Sunrise.
"Across Lifetimes Untold, We Still Say Hello"
This piece is inspired by a petroglyph in Peterborough, Ontario, c. 900-1100 CE. The First Nations people call them Kinomagewapkong, "The Teaching Rocks". To the Anishinaabe, the rock site is sacred, an area where spirits and the corporeal can meet. This figure really sticks out, scholars believe the top of their head is the Sun.
How the sun's light reflects upon the moon shining across our faces as we look up and connect, 2024.
"ᎤᏍᎨᏥᎸ ᎠᎵᏍᎩᏍᏗ" (usgetsilv alisgisdi - chicken-comb dance)
Mixed media, 2022. Playful sexual dimorphism, ritualized by the two-spirit. The two-spirit gyrates in the chicken-comb dance.
The language is Cherokee (which I'm part). The concept of the Two Spirit is pan-native-american, the term itself being formally coined near the end of the 20th century by queer indigenous activists and cultural preservationists.