ḵaahláang an unsád, iitl' tláawhla ḵuyaadang (to know what is inside, to love what we are made of), 2024
cassette tape, deer leather, felt, antique buttons, abalone buttons, glass beads, copper beads, red cedar bark, yellow cedar bark, white water turquoise, lapis lazuli beads, jade beads, sinew, sterling silver beads, gold filled beads, bone beads, bone buttons, thread, red cedar shavings from two totem poles, copper buttons, blue bird feathers, trade beads, and the cord I wore my copper on for 4 years.
4 x 24 x 1 inch
b side
Insecure Mixes. Identity Stories.
Two Spirits
15. Ocean Face Sees the Sky (Has Salmon on Her Mind)
Insecure Mix. Assimilation Story.
1. They’re almost always yellow, and I’m turning blue
Insecure Mixes. Identity Stories.
Two Spirits
16. Talks to Trees Makes an Adze (Keeps His Mother in His Hands)
Insecure Mix. Díi aa Sg̱áan Tlagáa X̱aat'áay gúusuugang (ghost of a ghost of a real Myth)
Painted (gouache) giclée print on Canson Photographique
5”x7”
A Naaxiin ghost face adorns this sonic record. She masks the flattened recording, and brings it into the spirit world. The title, in the Kaigani dialect of Haida, translates to, “The people of the afterworld are speaking to me.”
insecure mix. suspense story. i never mistook myself for someone who measured up, 2025
cassette tape, measuring tape, paint, deer leather, velvet ribbon, .22 brass, .223 brass, mother of pearl buttons, glass beads, mulberry paper, cord, sea glass, snail shells, stereo cable, copper splice caps, woodpecker feather
19”x8”
Our spirits do not require permission to endure.
Insecure Mix. Treachery of Identity. 40. Gám áa uu díi gyaahlangáay is’anggang (This Is Not a Tape), 2023
Watercolor on giclée printed photograph on cotton rag, 5”x7”
History is questionable, mutable, and shifting. The tape in the photographic image contains instructions for how to find the answers to the following questions: how do we address an identity that is imposed upon us? How do we escape the idea to become the real thing? Whose idea of who we are is most real and valid? Is it one’s own internal beliefs about who they are? Is it how one is perceived? How can we assert identity when we feel invisible? How do we force the world to deal with us?
Insecure Mixes. Problematic Conversation Stories.
13. Do What You’ve Gotta Do For You (And Shut the Fuck Up)
14. Cuz I’m Tired of Your Shit (Stonewalled)
Insecure Mixtape. Language Learner Story.
48. Níijaangw hl k’udlán-gang (I am painting a mask)
Insecure Mixes. Coping Stories. Vision Strategies
21. Three Dimensions (Includes Pain and Suffering)
22. Rosy (Unwavering Strength + Unknown Impacts of Repression)
Persistence story. gahl hal káaygaagang / she was born with it. (Within an Inch of Your White),2025
etched cassette tape, walnut loom, woven merino wool yarn, devil’s club, dentallium shells, mother of pearl buttons, United States Department of Interior archives from Southeast Alaska, mulberry paper, white feather, cord, snail shell, crystal, glass beads
16.25 x 10.25 x 7.5 inches
An ancestor face emerges from an Insecure Mix of materials and memory. The work confronts how cultural patrimony was turned into currency for a community under duress. The figure embodies both inheritance and rupture—devil’s club for healing and protection, woven fringe recalling the Raven’s tail. gahl hal káaygaagang (she was born with it) claims that becoming is a constant, generative act of love that carries Haida knowledge forward within and beyond the white line of history.
Insecure Mixtape. Canoe Story.
31. Our stories carry us through time together. (Dance to keep them Alive), 2023
Cassette tape, spray paint, paint pen, vintage buttons, cedar bark
10×4x.75 in
Insecure Mix 3D. Romance Story.
1. Saving My Love for You. (Your kisses are warm//fuzzy//warm//fuzzy)
Insecure Mix, Whimsical Story.
9. Born With The Sun In Cancer//Self-Portrait (Little Green), 2023
Insecure Mix. Blood Story.
88. Descended From K’wii Taas. Earth Eaters. Muddy Mouth People.
Insecure Mixtape. Renewal Story.
89. Sgajuuga.ahl’ laanas. Eagle. Frog. Hummingbird.
Insecure Mixtape. Shy Raven in Chartreuse.
insecure mix. inheritance story.kángwaay/what was left for me, 2025
cassette tape, waxed cord, mother of pearl buttons, murano glass mercury tubes, glass beads, false pearls, inherited costume jewelry, t’áaw/copper shields, tiger’s eye, magpie feather.
20 x 5.5 x 1 inches
Insecure Mix. Atlanta Flint River Story.
18. Flooded By the Waters of Childhood (Pray for the Return of the Mvskoke)
Insecure Mix. Assimilation Story.
6. Beauty is Sink Deep (Grime Doesn’t Pay)
Insecure Mix. Cumulus Cloud Vision//Sky World (Dreaming is My War Plan), 2026
Cassette tape, wool felt, glass beads, copper beads, mother of pearl buttons, wool roving, feathers, cedar bark, salmon leather, deer leather, thread, sinew.
16”x8”