Trophies and Relics

I want to create imagery that lives in the space between promise and threat. 

I want to see a vast open space and imagine the experience of hopeful European settlers claiming a new land.  An open landscape points to a painful fragmented consequence for Indigenous people. This tense space develops over time and embeds the ghost of a people in the American consciousness, beautiful and hauntingly replayed. Native people, changed and resilient, hold the American culture together with this consequence while the victor is free from history.  

Selena Kearney, Chehalis

Daughter to Janice Latch, and Granddaughter to Ida Rosander