Burdened With More Beautiful Things
Burdened With More Beautiful Things (2024) is an installation that explores how ideas of home, survival, and exclusion are interconnected and how these themes can alter and affect our acceptance and participation in community. Through the use of archival photographs, beadwork, and text borrowed from Ponca poet Cliff Taylor, the work encourages us to uncover how the reverberating repercussions of familial secrecy and cultural disconnection can slowly be dismantled to reveal care, compassion, and community beneath.
hišəbəʔ (thank you) to Cliff Taylor, Asia Tail, and yəhaw̓ Indigenous Creatives Collective. This work was generously supported by Oregon Contemporary for the 2024 Oregon Contemporary Artists' Biennial
Documentation photography: Mario Gallucci