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Kúme


  • Salman Arm Arts Centre 70 Hudson Avenue Northeast Salmon Arm, BC, V1E 4H8 Canada (map)

I will be participating in the Kume exhibition in summer 2025 at Salmon Arm Art Gallery.

Kúme is the second exhibition in a three-year series on displacement of Indigenous trees, food plants and animals, and people. In Secwépemctsín, Kúme means "going to the forest to gather food." It was the title of a collaborative installation at the exhibition A Seat at the Table in 2019, which focused on five traditional food plants.

My 2023 painting “Underdock” depicts the forest of pillars under a cannery dock. This one was attached to the Cassiar Cannery outside Prince Rupert. The Cannery operated from the 1880s, and saw the evolution of fish harvesting from an isolated fleet of small wooden boats to the larger industrial fleet that grew in the 20th century. The Cannery closed shortly after the Pacific Salmon Treaty was Initiated in 1985, which saw the collapse of the fishing industry in northern BC. It stands a mute reminder of the unsustainable plunder of indigenous seafood from the north Pacific.

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