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ALPSP – Seed Collab # 2 My Throne – Lydie Dubuisson Dear Lydie, a flower for your throne. FINDMUTYA a felt pen flower drawing by hand, digitally embellished using milinote’s drawing tool.

This piece was made in memory of those we have lost and those who have struggled and sacrificed so much, so we could be here now.

This is a poem inspired by Sarah Rossy’s poem “Eat the Fruit” and connects with a drawing I did of my ancestor during the Ask the Mountains online arrivals process in 2022.

ALPSP, Seed # 2 FIND MUTYA traversing the rockies, on my way home. What I am making… –Still Image Collage– FINDMUTYA

A preachy essay that I hope has some value.

Short Story

I felt compelled to be in the forest, my grand mother and great grand mother, on my mother’s side speaking to me. So much sorrow in my heart from many recent deaths. This sorrow deeply connects to the losses that these two ancestors in particular had to endure. Where to find faith and trust?

matrilineal pain

1. A poem weaving my ancestor’s experiences in the Red River settlement, including their involvement in the Riel Resistance and and my own experiences teaching inside a federal prison. 2. Painting / Drawing: Ancestral Figure and Child – Reaching Back

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Painting – digital watercolor and acrylic

This video is of a collaboration between Rosemary Georgeson, Jonathan Langdon and Julie Tamiko Manning that took place in September 2023, at The Final Steps, a monument on a pier in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, where each have ancestors that crossed this threshold between land and water.

Travelling between two worlds. The Sea, it’s history and my ability to stay the course.

How can I move my body, as if I am moving my ancestors’ body? How can I then search for pleasure and joy in my body for all of us? How can I commit to carving out space for joy in this physical realm and their spiritual realm? 

hand & feet on land & waters simple, primal ancestral memory cellular connection

A visual poem inspired by Julie’s invitation to honour the broken.

ALPSP – Seed #3 – FIND MUTYA A sound collage of vocals and loops to convey the essence of forgiving my past in order to keep moving forward. Note: Trigger warning, there are sound samples of a gunshot, a guns trigger being pulled back, glass shattering and breaking, heavy metal slamming.

Tribute for Mama Irva Roberts…