Seasons: Summer

I am mainly focused on love. Strawberries, hearts, embraces, and gentle eyes: through painting, I show you I care. This love carries me through my arts practice and my personal life. I hope all the queer natives that see my work feel the vibrating colours like the grand entry at a pow wow. I strive to create an immersion of joy—joyful paintings as a counterbalance to damage-centered narratives that are tied to Indigenous communities and the conspicuous consumption of queer Indigenous trauma.  […]

Women Talking, an award-winning, international best-selling novel by Miriam Toews, was adapted into a screenplay and directed by filmmaker Sarah Polley. The star-studded cast includes Frances McDormand (Scarface), Claire Foy (Salome Friesen), Jessie Buckley (Mariche Loewen), and Rooney Mara (Ona Friesen). […]

    “We are sitting together, I am asking her a set of questions that we both know are absurd because we both know exactly where they stem from and lead to, all in the […]