work in progress

Being Water is a multimedia research project about the regeneration of healthy ecosystems.

yɛχay | clam basket 

LAND LANGUAGE

weaving & narration: sosan blaney

paintings: megan dulcie dill

video: claudia medina

Yexay Research Project

based on stories about the northern Salish Sea seen through diverse perspectives and inquiry into collections of the Tla'amin Nation, qathet Museum and Archives, local collectors and gleaners with direct experience in/around the Salish Sea. The program of work will rethink what the local collections, institutional process and curation practice has signified through time using an artistic intervention with new media and critical presentation. The artists have created dialogue around their experiences in and around water with connections to language and land based knowledge. Objects and experience acted as a starting point for inquiry based learning and the sharing of individual and collective memories. The artists have co-created a piece based on these conversations, experiences and the objects themselves. The concept is based on presenting untold stories through direct experience with the local land and artifacts. The land and direct experience on it can provide a framework for understanding our place in a reconciled version of Canada.

Land Language Works in Progress

Land Language collage works are made in specific places, reverberating sounds, and visually restructuring the experience through collaged maps overlaid with mixed media. The paintings bring something new from the past by reordering information in new ways. They become saturated with both disparate and unified visual information in details such as flora, fauna, sea stories, topography and mark making. Concepts around birth, decay, growth and rejuvenation provide cyclical rhythms that predominate the work. The paintings have a watery perception of moving lines, shifting spaces and disappearing and emerging forms. They are made with local area inks, reconstituted maps, graphite and pen.