Buried by White Ways, 2022
Linen cloth, bookboard, satin, buckskin, paper, linen thread, beaver wood, glass beads, paper doily
23" x 10.5" x 3"
23" x 10.5" x 3"
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Audio Transcript: Buried by White Ways
Here are four generations of Puyallup women. My great grandmother Barbara in the back, my grandmother Patty, my mother Linda, and my sister Rachel and I as babies. Looking at these generations makes me feel rooted but also brings up a lot of questions. When I look at these photos, I see more than just our matching bone structures, lips and chubby cheeks. I see years of residential school, I see the trauma of not being white enough, and not native enough, of being saiwash. I see survival. I see a need to survive. Buried by White Ways is a work that explores what is hidden beneath this attempt to assimilate. There are histories and stories and truths there that remain strong, something in my dreams that directs me, if I choose to dig. |
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