“the language of postmodernism is ethnocentric and insufficient” — Gomez-Pena 1994: 18 “Art is supposedly well within the digital age of fusion, beyond boundaries and anthropology.” Todd 2011: 127 I have an uncomfortable relationship with non-Indigenous artists who explore (I would say exploit, but that’s because I haven’t had my coffee yet today) Indigenous issues.… Read More
the Grandmothers
the Grandmothers lay moss all around her gently lift her and place her upon the spongy earth relinquishing the sorrow weeping from her veins child of ours blessed is your path but we love you with the intensity of a thousand stars we will never leave you And there, in the endless twilight of that… Read More
a long way
I’ve been extra curmudgeonly these days. Blame it on the weather (it’s cooling off rapidly here at 69 degrees North), or the shortened days. Or the fact that I really miss my morning lattes. But the reality is that my grumpiness is partially because I’m feeling disconnected from, and discombobulated about, my hometown. As I… Read More