Water as Kin, Water as Community

11x17, digital. 2022

This piece was the first of four to be created throughout the 2022 One Water Artist Residency. It tells the story of Indigenous community members’ relationships to water in Teejop // Madison and was created in collaboration with a focus group of Indigenous participants. In the style of ledger art created by Plains nations, the design is risograph printed on a page from the plans for the Nine Spring Wastewater Treatment Plant, and the hair is created using a picture of the Yahara river taken by me.