Medicine Prints

Medicine Prints and maskihkiy are a series of cyanotypes on elkhide that are an exploration of

materiality and process that express relation to the land. The elkhide photograms and prints are created

using a variety of flora, traditional medicines and landscape photographs of my ancestral territory in

Alberta. The works are a process of image making using natural materials and techniques to create

records of connection with the land and relatives.

I am interested in collecting flora and images and combining them to create portraits or records of

where I live on the west coast and my territory in northern Alberta. The drums and hides reveal a

relationship to memory and territory that demonstrate the importance of land as a place of connection

and community. The cyanotype elkhide prints are records of gathering medicines and images on the

land and the histories of these living materials.