Graham Paradis

Quillpocalypse Now

Graham Paradis Quillpocalypse Now

Artist Statement

This Covid mask is an Indigenous futurism inspired by a nightmare of a post-apocalyptic world where the birch bark population (one of our traditional materials used for quillwork) has been decimated by settler resource extraction and we quill on whatever we can.

In the spirit of reconciliation, we acknowledge that we live, work and play on the traditional territories of the Iyârhe Nakoda Nations (Bearspaw, Wesley, Chiniki), the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut’ina – part of the Dene people, Ktunaxa, Secwépemc, Mountain Cree and Métis. Please click here for our full Indigenous Acknowledgement statement. Please click here for "The Land We Are On: A Presentation about Land Acknowledgement Statements and What They Mean."

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