FATIGUES

MILITARY TIME

Family fatigues, cables

Rubber bullet and flash bomb shells from Seattle 2020 protests Newspaper and wire

70 x 28 x 18 inches; 65 x 49 x 18 inches; 18 x 70 x 18 inches

Facing an opposing army containing family and friends, a soldier is torn.. I was born into a military family. These fatigues are from different wars. Both of my grandfathers fought in WWII and one of their brothers was killed in combat fighting Nazis. My brother, father and aunt are all veterans. My first protest was a 2003 Seattle school walk-out and march against War in Iraq— “Money for tuition, not ammunition.” I grew up learning how to love and respect all that I stand against.

Impreg-Nation

Four hour Durational Performance art 2024

Hexagonal Gavlanized mesh on titanium flesh

When our body is fenced in, what happens to our mind? How is our body different from nature?

What type of trauma does it take to disassociate

What type of mental and physical borders, fences and boundaries need to be broken

This piece is in memory of the women who gave birth to nation-states born of rape by soldiers forcibly making heirs in enemy territory. It invites the viewer to participate by placing their hands on any open wall space in this room, closing your eyes, and taking a few minutes to remember victims of violence, personal or impersonal, recent or past.

Seattle Rein

Oil, aluminum and tape on canvas

2024

65 x 93 inches

It doesn’t take an atomic bomb to become death, destroyer of worlds. This Seattle political landscape painting is a memorial to the post-colonization loss of local ecological integrity. Fragments from Chief Seattle’s famous speech (ver.1) are buried by the American Flag—societal respect and connection to this land disregarded for profit and environmental commodification. Ghosts of the clear-cut old growth forest haunt Seattle’s skyline and Space Needle. With a collapsed dorsal fin caused by toxic water, a Southern Resident killer whale surfaces under heavy grief of Tokitae and the other 275 Orcas who were taken from the Salish Sea for the commercial amusement of settlers. Salmon run throughout the painting with an uncertain future as 14 populations of steelhead trout, Chinook, coho, chum, and sockeye in Washington State are listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act. Due to development and habitat destruction, the last known reindeer (‘Rein’ in Norwegian/ wild caribou) was captured and placed with a herd in British Colombia, officially making reindeer extinct in the lower 48 by 2019. Traditional ways of life that depend on maintaining a healthy ecosystem are at risk as multiple species are pushed to the brink of extinction.

Proceeds from this piece will go to Chief Seattle Club.

“Imagine a world without homelessness.. Chief Seattle Club is a Native-led housing and human services agency. We believe that a world without homelessness is possible by leading with Native values. We provide sacred space to nurture, affirm, and strengthen the spirit of urban Native people.”

Here in King County, between 9% and 15% of the homeless population identifies as Native or Indigenous. Demographically, they constitute only 1% of the total population. In 1850, King County was 100% Indigenous.

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