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[ Type ]

Installation

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Two square murals of blue night sky and orange figures mounted on the brick walls of an open-air pavilion with steel trusses.

[ Description ]

Stellar Narratives: An Urban Indigenous Odyssey is a pair of murals on the brick walls of Koerner Gardens at Evergreen Brick Works, installed from June 2024 to June 2025. Point a phone at a mural and an Anishinaabe constellation rises out of it. With each season a new chapter unfolds: Mishi Bizhiw in spring, Nanabozho in summer, Mooz in fall and Gaa-biboonikaan in winter.

The star knowledge draws on the Ojibwe Sky Star Map and Talking Sky. The story of Mishi Bizhiw comes from my grandmother and an Elder at Batchewana. City light pushes the stars back. The work invites urban Indigenous youth to look up anyway and find the stories written above them.

Stellar Narratives won the 2024 Emerging Digital Artist Award in XR and travelled with the EDAA exhibition. An XR-activated print of the work hangs in Hyper Woodland at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery in 2026.

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[ Year ]

2024 to 2025

STELLAR NARRATIVES: AN URBAN INDIGENOUS ODYSSEY

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