Macie Dixon

Ecotone

Installation based on dreams.

“This body of work explores dreams through the lens of Anishinaabe cosmologies. The entire process has been guided by mamatowisiwin. My choice of installation is because the feeling is more important than any individual aspect of the work. The plants symbolize my mothers garden when I was a baby, when my dream medicine first started. The herbs are chosen for their magickal properties. The paintings are dreams I've had, and serve as portals. The choice to not hang them on the walls was so one wouldn't look at them as if they were paintings. Nogojiwanong is about self preservation. Miskwaadesi of the importance of traditional knowledge. And Mikinaak was a confirmation dream of a personal question I had asked. All together this body of work is a surreal art piece of the space in between awake and asleep. ”