Eagle Woman is exhibited on the Olympic Village Canada Line Station from September 2023 - June 2024.
Shain Niniwem Selapem Jackson’s Eagle Woman is a digital drawing of an eagle matriarch dancing beneath a full copper moon. The work was inspired by the many women in the artist’s life who have lifted him up and provided love, guidance, and support. The artist intends for viewers to feel these women’s ability to dance through adversity and pain with ferocious dignity and courage. In the artist’s own words:
“In each era rises a matriarch. She lives her entire life to serve but she’s no servant. She’s a weaver. Attendant to a loom made of passed down parts. Its components fashioned generation after generation by glorious women who carry an exquisite vision, one of love and unity. The strands of her cloth are souls. Some have heartbeats, others made up only of memories spliced together with artful abandon. Some strands are copper and gold. Others are beautiful with ends frayed, tattered, or torn. She’ll mend them with the fibres of her own frock despite being threadbare itself. Such is the sacrifice her art insists.”