Revitalizing Our Connections is exhibited on the Olympic Village Canada Line Station from September 2024 - March 2025.
“When our lands, rivers, lakes, and the Salish sea are healthy, our people are healthy."
I am deeply inspired witnessing and taking part in the work my community (Tsleil-Waututh) has led in stewarding and restoring the health of our territory. There have been plants and animal kin that have returned and many rebuilt connections to the ecosystems around us. Our livelihood has always relied on an interdependence of many faunas and flora, many of which have disappeared from our lands and waters in the last century and a half. My intention is to pay tribute to those species we have helped bring back in recent years.
This work has and is being led by Tsleil-Waututh people in many different forms along with the assistance of other organizations and supportive groups. The overall goal is to re-establish a healthy relationship with the environment around us because we too come from the land.