Historically colonizers severed the unceded Indigenous land known as Canada to create settled homesteads in the Dominion Land Act. Today urban morphology is mostly shaped by the plots of land that were once severed for agricultural homesteads, while in rural Ontario traditional homesteads are still relevant and are deeded to be family legacy properties. Harmony grew up on an intergenerational legacy homestead located in Kawatha (Anishinaabe name for Kawartha Lakes). Harmony recognizes that the land that she refer's to as home is stolen from the original caregivers; the Wendake-Nionwentsïo, Mississauga, Hodenosauneega, and Anishinabewaki peoples during the Williams Treaties. Harmony begins to reconcile the truth that the treaties that took land rights from the Indigenous people, that benefited her Scottish-descended settler family. As she recognizes that legacies are ephemeral as Nomadic Homestead challenges the potential of unsettling the fixed site of “home” as it literally drives to temporary existences of home sites.
Sculpture Land art Woodworking Installation Using found materials Structural Sculptures Storytelling Power tool Carving