This artwork is part of a series of Indigenous artwork, commissioned through the City’s Indigenous Artist Call 2019. In February 2019, the City invited proposals for temporary painted murals and digital printed artwork within Vancouver’s public realm, located on the unceded ancestral homelands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil Waututh peoples. In April 2019, proposals were shortlisted by a panel of urban and local Indigenous art experts, with six projects then recommended for commission. 

"Sisters, Daughters, Clan mothers: Honouring Indigenous Women and Girls is a work honouring Indigenous women and girls, their contribution to the arts, their connection to the land, their resilience and their contribution to the community. The work is situated above the elevators on the main floor of the central Vancouver Public Library. I chose this spot because to me it connects indigenous peoples’ voices and understandings to the public realm of knowledge, understanding, and education. I took special care to include many traditional elements of north-west coast and prairie cultures, and represent many kinds of faces of indigenous women."