![Matthew](https://format.creatorcdn.com/50915696-213c-433e-bf01-78109da08bef/0/0/0/0,0,2974,2974,700,2974/0-0-0/7a96ba8b-4b1b-442c-bfbd-8b629b7c4411/1/1/mattweb.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037553973~hmac=6011d3caf00526eea92cb4ee1885fc783daf7a0750688dc84cba1ff1d21070f2)
![Janet](https://format.creatorcdn.com/50915696-213c-433e-bf01-78109da08bef/0/0/0/0,0,2641,3000,700,3000/0-0-0/e297ebe5-0624-46cf-b660-b42e323be6cd/1/1/janetweb.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037553973~hmac=5210ab831d4e1650cdd999277d403ee64734b06202b0c298d41f2fff7ab7337c)
![Self Portrait](https://format.creatorcdn.com/50915696-213c-433e-bf01-78109da08bef/0/0/0/0,0,2974,2974,700,2974/0-0-0/1aa262c1-0c82-4396-a8ee-bb76c4d6d319/1/1/laurenweb.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037553973~hmac=6011d3caf00526eea92cb4ee1885fc783daf7a0750688dc84cba1ff1d21070f2)
![Seth](https://format.creatorcdn.com/50915696-213c-433e-bf01-78109da08bef/0/0/0/0,0,2974,2974,700,2974/0-0-0/0b5be5ef-3d90-4318-9941-9775c89faeae/1/1/sethweb.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037553973~hmac=6011d3caf00526eea92cb4ee1885fc783daf7a0750688dc84cba1ff1d21070f2)
![Emily](https://format.creatorcdn.com/50915696-213c-433e-bf01-78109da08bef/0/0/0/0,0,2974,2974,700,2974/0-0-0/e2da0aa5-6457-4c2f-b9dd-364580203173/1/1/emilyweb.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037553973~hmac=6011d3caf00526eea92cb4ee1885fc783daf7a0750688dc84cba1ff1d21070f2)
![Maria](https://format.creatorcdn.com/50915696-213c-433e-bf01-78109da08bef/0/0/0/0,0,2646,3000,700,3000/0-0-0/66ac087a-1f85-481f-b0cf-ee85fcf6647f/1/1/mariaweb.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037553973~hmac=e93cdf0e090b69bbef7be8028128dcf70a69d513174f4820bb2e37937d49672a)
![John](https://format.creatorcdn.com/50915696-213c-433e-bf01-78109da08bef/0/0/0/0,0,2605,3000,700,3000/0-0-0/56f19ece-6e57-43d9-843d-37af8a6ab8f8/1/1/johnweb.jpg?fjkss=exp=2037553973~hmac=4dbec5c4a832bb7ae3735d98ed35718740a18b69445b53e651119e8418568bfa)
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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