A spokesperson says---
"...Comprising of more than twenty new photo-weavings made from the artist’s contemporary landscape photographs, archival documents, historical images, maps, printed bamboo and rice papers, cotton thread, ribbon, and hand-prepared rivercane, the exhibition considers the relationship between Indigenous people and ancestral land and the systems of representation, ownership, and erasure that have attempted to sever that connection...
...Sense's practice is grounded...in inherited knowledge and original research...developing her variation of traditional basketry methods...The maps, records, and images in her work are primary sources she located through this research...
...Land, Line, Blood, Memory, provides a framework for the intertwined histories embedded throughout the work...
Land is understood not as property but as a living source of knowledge, relationship, and cultural continuity...incorporating this material into the work as both a physical connection to the land and an acknowledgment of the generations of Indigenous weavers who have sustained this knowledge. Line examines the borders, names and legal records imposed through colonial mapping, exposing how systems of stewardship were transformed into systems of ownership disrupting Indigenous relationships to place. Blood draws on archival land records documenting the transfer and dispossession of Chitimacha and Choctaw ancestral homelands in what is now Southeast United States, weaving these bureaucratic documents into images of the natural world to reconnect them with the living landscapes and histories they sought to erase. Memory considers the gaps and omissions of the historical record through archival photographs, historical landscape imagery, and Sense's own...photographs of Tahoe, Sequoia, Redwood, and Yosemite National Parks. She challenges the...myths of the American landscape as empty, untouched, and available for possession by restoring the presence of the Indigenous communities whose histories remain inseparable from these places..."
