Artwork created for the fifth annual Indigenous Celebration Week, from January 26-29, 2026.

Entanglement: Kin Carried Forward is inspired by Connie Fife’s Driftwoodwoman and its focus is on Indigenous women’s healing through relationality, memory, and community care. I wanted to explore how kinship lives in everyday acts of making, care, and responsibility.

The piece features multiple hands reaching and holding, with red ribbons weaving between one another, representing intergenerational connection and accountability. The red ribbons reference both the femininity of ribbon skirts and the teaching that red is a colour visible to the spirit world, offering pathways home. Some hands pass a needle threaded with beads, while others offer sweetgrass and medicines, showing how knowledge, healing, and creation move through shared practice.

I work in a digital linocut style that draws on the visual language of traditional carving while using contemporary tools. This approach reflects the continuity and adaptation present in the piece, and how kinship and cultural knowledge are carried forward over time.