Untitled 2017 — Acrylics on wall, approx. 6 × 9 m. Wieden+Kennedy, Portland.

Commissioned for Portland Pride 2017. The centerpiece is a portrait of a Native American person — a challenge to a majority-white city that prides itself on liberalism, and a reminder that Indigenous societies across this continent have always recognised a multiplicity of genders. The Zuni concept of Imahana is not the Crow concept of Badé, but across nations, identities that European colonisers persecuted and erased were already known, named, and respected long before modern America thought it invented them. The river running through the figure carries that older knowledge — ecological reverence and gender plurality as twin inheritances, not inventions.

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