COMING SOON: Anishinaabemowin Language Deck (ALD)
The next two years (2022-2024) for Earth & Sky Studio will be dedicated to Ways to Wellness Project and the creation of an Anishinaabemowin Language Deck (ALD), and will become a free Open Education Resource and public bilingual tarot-format flashcard set.
The ALD is being created through collaborative digital art sessions with local & regional Anishinaabe Artists, Cultural Facilitators and Students at the Laurentian Learning Centre & Nbisiing sharing Anishinaabemowin translations and artworks to create a beautiful intergenerational Language resource.
Wise Practices: Exploring Indigenous Economic Justice and Self-Determination
A great honour presented itself in 2020, when I was invited to work on this cover Illustration for an Indigenous Law Anthology that has since been published through the University of Toronto Press.
This design was created in conversation with legal scholar John Borrows, who specializes in Indigenous legal rights and comparative constitutional law.
The book is available for order at the link below.
Creative ACE
A new-and-improved Creative ACE logo that draws inspiration from an arts trifecta of analog, digital and music.
Content can be found under the Projects tab, via Instagram at @creative.ace and on YouTube via Earth & Sky Studio.
Cedar Cinematic
Most recent logo collaboratively designed with filmmaker Morningstar Derosier based in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Check out Morningstar's work on Instagram:
@cedarcinematic
Earth & Sky Studio
Ink variation of the classic Earth & Sky fern design.
Inspired by the Zen EnsÅ: the fern is intended to represent Earth while the enso is meant to echo Sky/Atmosphere.
@earthandskystudio
Featured collection - Digital Art
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Water is Life - Free Digital Download
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Empowered Women Empower Women - Free Digital Download
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Living Trees and Networks: An Exploration of Fractal Ontology and Digital Archiving of Indigenous Knowledge
Fractal ontology is a holistic philosophy by which interconnectedness can be described and visualized as the repetition of a naturally occurring complex pattern. Using mtig bemaadzid (the living tree) as a primary example of a fractal, this thesis analyzes the digital network as a fractal form of establishing connections. In this way, I suggest that fractal ontology is an extension of Akinoomaagewin (physical philosophy) that describes Indigenous arts and culture archives in the digital age that crosses the humanities and sciences, and foregrounds systems theory.
Working with film and photographic processes in three case-studies, I reflect on archival film and hypermedia databases as strengths within the digital network, emphasizing the importance of reciprocal and collaborative practices. This thesis also highlights global information politics, as well as information sovereignty in relation to digital media and online platforms, as fundamental components of digital archiving for arts and culture.
Read first chapter article here:
Mtig bemaadzid / The Living Tree: Digital Archiving Through Film at MISHI
