Matthew
Janet
Self Portrait
Seth
Emily
Maria
John

The Future All At Once, McMullen Gallery. 2019.


The presence of Indigenous people today remains at odds with ongoing settler imaginings of our disappearance.

With each portrait I refuse a romanticized notion that Indigenous people are timeless beings. I would like to disentangle Indigenous imagery from the past, free Indigenous people from a performative role to bring us visually in the present so we can see ourselves existing firmly in the future.

In this portrait series, I explored my own community by photographing and painting them. Many of the people I am close to while others I shared a brief encounter with. I paint people as they are with no instruction of how they should represent themselves. These images don’t claim to be a perfect representation of the sitter, but a brief moment in time that describes their presence.

Grasping the Indigenous form with paint is an inexhaustible pursuit.

Here you will see Indigenous people today, as they are.

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