Visions Museum of Textile Art

This exhibition presents a body of work that engages family archives as sites of memory, rupture, and contested belonging. Drawing from photographs, farmland deeds, plat maps, and personal documents inherited from the artist’s family in rural Minnesota, the work brings these materials into dialogue with photographs made on Dakota and Ojibwe lands. Through layering, weaving, and interruption, the pieces challenge the authority of archival images and legal records that once defined land as property, inheritance, and individual possession while obscuring Indigenous relations to place.

Using fine art photo paper, transparent film, and partially opaque mylar, I construct fragmented visual fields where embodied histories disrupt the rigid logic of maps and documents. These works function as counter-documents—spaces where settler memory is unsettled by the Indigenous geographies it inhabits yet often refuses to acknowledge. Returning to the archive in a moment of deep cultural fracture, the exhibition invites viewers to reconsider how histories of land and belonging are constructed, inherited, and reimagined through acts of material and narrative rupture.  Read more…