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What you truly own can’t be lost to fire, 2025
What you truly own can’t be lost to fire, 2025. Glass seed beads, thermally-fused/braided polyethylene thread on lightbox. 8 x 10 inches.
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My Dead My Seed, 2025
My Dead My Seed, 2025. Glass seed beads, cotton thread on home-tanned salmon skin leather. 16 x 20 inches. Inspired by the wonderful poem “Not Just a Platform for My Dance” by Marilyn Dumont.
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Lot’s Wife, 2025
Lot’s Wife, 2025. Size 11 & 15 glass seed beads, nylon thread, acyrlic and fabric paint on velvet. 11 x 14 inches. Less about the Bible and more about witness to destruction. Less about Sodom and Gomorrah and more about home. For the women of Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Northern Manitoba,…
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Death Spiral (Trust Fall), 2025
Death Spiral (Trust Fall), 2025. Glass seed beads, nylon & cotton thread on velvet. 18 x 24 inches.
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Coup de grâce, 2025
Coup de grâce, 2025. Glass seed beads, thermally-fused/braided polyethylene thread on Melton wool. 11 x 14 inches.
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Bloodletter, 2025
Bloodletter, 2025. Glass seed beads, cotton and nylon thread, fabric paint on felt. 10 x 10 inches.
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Mourning Band, 2025
Mourning Band, 2025. Size 11 & 15 glass seed beads & nylon thread on velvet, rabbit fur, hide. 7×13 inches. Arm cast by Michael Miteku and Taliesin Dorais-Fleming. In some Michif communities, pallbearers at funerals wear black armbands on their free arms. Sometimes they are placed in the grave after…
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Crow’s Medallion, 2025
Crow’s medallion, 2025. Size 11 and 15 glass seed beads, nylon thread, felt, hide, paracord. A gift for my beloved friend Crow, depicting a crow claw-print.
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Landscape, 2024
Landscape (50.4° N, 98.1° W x 50.1° N, 97.6° W), 2024. Size 11 glass seed beads, 24k gold-coated beads, thread, felt, hide. 8×9”. A beaded topographical map using a “bead tufting” technique, exploring one corner of the Métis homeland: the St. Laurent area. I used coloured thread for each section…
Vi Houssin 