Artist Statement: We've
You are forever deeply ingRAINed into my heART and MEmories. I was wrong to say that I would choose my art over yOUR heART. If I could carve a companion, make a wooden woman for you to notice and love me again, I would. If I could trade my Salish soul for yOUR Heltsuik heART, I would. If I could paint a path back to yOUR heART, I would. If I could relive my lIFe like Nat King Cole's "Nature Boy," I would. If i could relive my lIFe, I would surrender my artistic talent for yOUR love. We were supposed to complete each other and weave a lIFe of love. It's like I was a Salish soul and you were a Heltsuik heART, doing our best to love each other despite our tormented pasts. Since you left me I have felt like half the man I used to be. I have had to attempt to transform the tragedy of my broken heART into he-art. I am trying to reclaim my human agency despite being partially demoralized by a post-colonial reality. Realize I am pARTially a product of my past.
realize the residential school
cultural ants in my pANTS
realize my residential school
aunt got in my pANTS
realize the respectful relationships
between men and women
woven by spindle whorls
the demoralization
of contemporary
Coast Salish
men and women
demoralized contemporary
Coast Salish men
thinking
"if you were
my carved companion
my wooden woman
you are the one
i would
stick my wood in"
the respectful relationships
woven between
men and women
of spindle whorls
we've
respectful relationships
between men and women
lessLIE
We've (Print)
lessLIE
Northwest Coast (Coast Salish)
Serigraph Edition of 100
22" x 22" (Unframed)
2011
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