Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Chelsea Smith

And the Birds Take Flight

Painting
2020
handmade natural pigments and oil on canvas
5'x4'
Entities erased from ancestral past emerging. Created with Willie Ermine's concept of mamatowisowin, creating within the inner space, this is the beginning of healing. Titles are lines from a piece I wrote while creating the 'All My Relations' series.

“The notions of my homeplace, family, and my family’s heritage with a core concept of “all my relations” are the driving forces in my work. Through the use of natural materials such as rocks and soil from my homeplace I am rediscovering and strengthening my connections to ancestors and land.

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And the Birds Take Flight
And the Birds Take Flight

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Chelsea Smith

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“My bones remind me that I have been a part of this land before and that they have laid in this ground many times over, my knowledge and inner understanding of land feels far too great to have come...” [More]