Deer Hide Journals

Seed beads and porcupine quills on raw deer hide, 2020.

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This piece was started as a resident of Contingencies of Care, a virtual two-week residency held in June 2020 exploring the notion of care and co-hosted by OCAD University, University of British Columbia Okanagan, BUSH Gallery and Toronto Biennial of Art.

 

Exploring beadwork and quillwork as a method of visual journaling, this work is an in-progress collaborative project between myself, the land, and non-human kin that creatively explores the reciprocal notion of care we provide to one another. Through continual acts of visiting and taking care of the land over a two-week period, the creative process of this piece breaks away from Western temporalities and re-centres Indigenous notions of time and relation to place.