Generative Love
Generative Love is an exhibition that transforms paper from a material historically wielded as an instrument of control into a site of renewal and expression. Through vivid, abstract compositions informed by Northwest Coast formline design, the work reclaims this surface from institutions that aim to extinguish cultural inheritance through federal policies. Paper becomes a medium of agency and a space for self-determination.
shifting moonlight, afterimage, & void, 2025 acrylic on paper 30”x22”
jat’adíi, Theory of Authority, (making ceremony of learning a word in Xaad Kíl), 2025 used pistol target, shredded archives, gold leaf, acrylic, gouache, mono print on mulberry paper 28 x 12 inches
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 x 8 inches
Kán gigáa / dance apron. Never Your Subject (White Lies with Our Skin in Your Game), 2025 archival copy of the Hydaburg Agreement, scrap deer leather, paint, mother of pearl buttons, .22 brass, .223 brass, pendant crucifix 31.25 x 16.25 inches
Kán gigáa / dance apron. Never Your Subject (White Lies with Our Skin in Your Game), detail
She Woke From a Dream to the Voices of Trees, 2025 serigraph, monoprint, conte crayon, charcoal, mulberry paper, gold leaf, and merino wool on paper with ebonized white oak loom 54 x 40 inches
She Woke From a Dream to the Voices of Trees, detail
(káada/at a loss for words) gyaahlangaay án kaajuuhldgan/the story became changed, 2023-25 block print, pencil, colored pencil, & acrylic on paper 15 x 22 inches
electric impulse carried your memories to me, 2025 collage, acrylic, oil pastel on paper 30 x 22 inches
across time by the beat of our hearts, 2025 collage, acrylic, oil pastel on paper 30 x 22 inches
time is symmetrical: balances on now series the past stretches out before me, a clear and known landscape (seen), 2025 gesso, collage, acrylic, oil pastel, & conte crayon on paper 22 x 15 inches
time is symmetrical: balances on now series i sense the future at my back, stirring with the shifting air (felt), 2025 gesso, collage, acrylic, oil pastel, & conte crayon on paper 22 x 15 inches
prayers to the other side of the veil (you dirty wasgo), 2025 acrylic on paper 30 x 22 inches
Madonna with Raven Hat and Child Acrylic on BFK Rives 30”x22”
dlagáng / jaagúuhl / k’wíi / xíl kuyáas / xiláay / xíinanggaang / giid hlíing (to hold, to carry / to fall in love / soil / plant / blossom / one’s own life / roots) terra cotta, soil, sitka spruce, red cedar, fireweed, forget-me-not, mugwort, cinquefoil, yarrow, golden-eyed grass, stonecrop, lady fern, aster, penstemon, sword ferns, maidenhair ferns, yarrow, rocks, log, moss, copper & micaceous paints dimensions variable
dlagáng / jaagúuhl / k’wíi / xíl kuyáas / xiláay / xíinanggaang / giid hlíing (to hold, to carry / to fall in love / soil / plant / blossom / one’s own life / roots)
dlagáng / jaagúuhl / k’wíi / xíl kuyáas / xiláay / xíinanggaang / giid hlíing (to hold, to carry / to fall in love / soil / plant / blossom / one’s own life / roots), detail
dlagáng / jaagúuhl / k’wíi / xíl kuyáas / xiláay / xíinanggaang / giid hlíing (to hold, to carry / to fall in love / soil / plant / blossom / one’s own life / roots), detail
dlagáng / jaagúuhl / k’wíi / xíl kuyáas / xiláay / xíinanggaang / giid hlíing (to hold, to carry / to fall in love / soil / plant / blossom / one’s own life / roots), detail
dlagáng / jaagúuhl / k’wíi / xíl kuyáas / xiláay / xíinanggaang / giid hlíing (to hold, to carry / to fall in love / soil / plant / blossom / one’s own life / roots), detail
dlagáng / jaagúuhl / k’wíi / xíl kuyáas / xiláay / xíinanggaang / giid hlíing (to hold, to carry / to fall in love / soil / plant / blossom / one’s own life / roots), detail
Insecure mix. 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
Insecure mix. Persistence story. gahl hal káaygaagang / she was born with it. (Within an Inch of Your White), detail
Generative Love asserts self-determination as both inheritance and practice. Through abstraction, material intervention, and layered storytelling, the exhibition honors the endurance of ancestral knowledge while insisting on the right to imagine and build liberated futures.