Senior Projects 1.
Pop-Up Exhibition for Senior projects 1, undergraduate at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Shown progress on current projects and portfolio within the themes of our thesis projects. My project, based on the corporate farming plots, in California's Central Valley, displaced the Tulare Lake Yokuts. These cyanotypes from my Kamitsis life archive, inspired me to place me family members within the waters of our peoples washed away histories. The original plan was to create my first independent quilt using my families archive in blue cyanotype and using the public archives from Hanford Ca. to form the layout of the Valley.
Echoing the washed away history of the Tulare Lake Yokuts, I used the process of water to solidify our existence, in relation to the lakes forced extinction and continued resilience. I find that ecocide is a reflection of genocide, Tulare Lakes and the Yokuts ancestry descends from a time before “California” and its topography. I
Washed Away(cyanotype tryptic) , 2024.
Uses a photo of Kamitsi and her sisters in front of their first home on what’s now known as jersey ave. The photo was taken around 1970. I was gifted this photo from my kamitisi’s sister Luchrisa, hoping form to continue collecting and taking photos for our archive. The middle cyanotype is a double print, of the back of the first photo with their names and context, on top of their names is my Yokuts bandanna basketry design. The last of the tryptic cyanotypes , is a photo from my auntie Chris’ facebook a photo of her and her sisters at an elders gathering in 2000’s.
Are the starting cyanotypes, that live within my personal archive, that are will form my first quilt. I am accumulated more of my families archive, as a junior historian for my family, in a continued effort of my family's traditions and hisotry. From my Kamitsi’s (my dads mom) mothers tradition of quilt making, I would love to continue the legacy by add a new quilt to our archive.
