Plains Cree and member of the Siksika Nation
- Dream Catcher – 2015
- Archival pigment print on watercolour paper
- 81.3 x 167.6 cm
Dream Catcher is part of the larger body of work I produced titled Wanderings (2015); the themes within these images are those related to wandering, exploring the unknown and considering the limitation and possibilities of the self. A red thread or colour red follows me throughout the images, illustrating this indivisible connection to home or the past, which informs me of who I am and possibly who I may become. This constant reminder of the inescapable factors that make us who we are – our past, our circumstance or our genes – can sometimes anchor us to a contrasting certainty. Tethered as we may be to the past and all that makes us who we are, I still seek a world of boundless possibilities of who I may become. I’ve created dream-like images with imaginary creatures to act as my guides to enable the viewer to get lost within their own thoughts and return to their child-like nature, to be free from restrictions and to be the person we dream to be.
In 2022, the Santa Clara Pueblo artist Rose B. Simpson made her public debut with “Counterculture," a series of 12 cast concrete structures in Williamstown, Mass.Commissioned by Art & the Landscape, a program of The Trustees, Massachusetts. Courtesy of the artist, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Photo by Stephanie Zollshan.
AN INDIGENOUS PRESENT (Big NDN Press/DelMonico Books
