Limited edition woodblock layered print

Edition of 20 - Image size 16” x 20”

Our natural world is a continual manifestation of the supernatural realms. In our teachings, both realities and all that is held within them are connected as one. For many, many generations the framework of our culture was built only through the lens of our Nuu-chah-nulth worldview. Since first contact we have experienced a rapidly evolving reality with many new challenges. Change can be very scary, especially when it has brought so many devastating disruptions to the balance in our communities.

But as a living, breathing culture, I like to imagine that our supernatural beings have continued to transform with us. Perhaps they too fall in love, create families and birth new life into the supernatural realms. In ceremony, when we bring out our ancestral dances, we are embodying powerful and almost unfathomable forces. When we gather in this way, we are bringing our people back into alignment with the supernatural realms.

“We Dance Them Back In” celebrates the transformative quality of any living culture. We do not cease to transform because we have experienced colonization and forced assimilation. We remain connected and worthy of sacredness if we are brave enough to open ourselves to it.