Chapter 4: LUNGS
Featuring T’uy’tanat-Cease Wyss
Cinematography and editing by Luciana Freire D'Anunciaçao
Introductory text:
Ha7lh skwáyel i7xw ta new-yap
T’uy’tanat kwi n-Kwshamín
Cease kwi n-sna
Kultsia iy Bruce-t ten elhtech
Senaqwila lha en men
Iy kamaya lha en ímats
Lily lha en stáyalh
tína chen tl’a sla7hn uximixw
Skwxwu7mesh chen, iymen, tina tl’a Sto:lo, Hawaiian , iy swiss.
An wanawxs en skwalwen
An ha7lh en skwalwen ti sti7s
Good day everyone
T’uy’tanat is my ancestral name
Cease is my name
My parents are Kultsia barb Wyss and the late Bruce Wyss
My daughter is Senaqwila and granddaughter kamaya.
I come from the village Esla7hn, and I am Squamish,
I am also sto:lo, Hawaiian, and swiss.
I respect who I am
It is a beautiful day today,
T'uy't'tanat- Cease Wyss is an interdisciplinary artist who works with new media, is an ethnobotanist and an emerging Coast Salish weaver: in both cedar and wool, as well as applying her skills in surface design through her textiles art practice, utilizing indigenous plants for dyes. Building on this ancient technology Cease will be embarking on a high tech project through Emily Carr College of Art and Design on Loretta Todd’s IM4: Indigenous Matriarchs 4 [as in the Sacred 4 directions] and will be building Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality worlds. Cease has been named the 2018 Indigenous Storyteller in Residence at the Vancouver Public Library and will be found at various libraries and community spaces from now til June. Her upcoming collaboration with Dene Artist Anne Riley and their Public Art project, “A Constellation of Remediation” will be focussed on Remediation of various sites that have endured colonial trauma, as well as being in need of different levels of remediation throughout Vancouver from now until 2019.
Cease recently completed an install at Semi Public, entitled Xaws Shew̓áy̓ :: New Growth, through a fellowship at Gallery 221a. The site has transformed from an empty lot to a Pacific Northwest Coast rainforest garden with Coast Salish formlines as the garden beds. The forest includes food, medicinal and utilitarian plants.
She is a member of the Aboriginal Writers Collective West Coast and lives in East Vancouver. She is a beekeeper and community engaged gardener.
Chapter 4 of Reflections on a window glass was conceived and realized on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) people.
Featuring T’uy’tanat-Cease Wyss
Cinematography and editing by Luciana Freire D'Anunciaçao
Introductory text:
Ha7lh skwáyel i7xw ta new-yap
T’uy’tanat kwi n-Kwshamín
Cease kwi n-sna
Kultsia iy Bruce-t ten elhtech
Senaqwila lha en men
Iy kamaya lha en ímats
Lily lha en stáyalh
tína chen tl’a sla7hn uximixw
Skwxwu7mesh chen, iymen, tina tl’a Sto:lo, Hawaiian , iy swiss.
An wanawxs en skwalwen
An ha7lh en skwalwen ti sti7s
Good day everyone
T’uy’tanat is my ancestral name
Cease is my name
My parents are Kultsia barb Wyss and the late Bruce Wyss
My daughter is Senaqwila and granddaughter kamaya.
I come from the village Esla7hn, and I am Squamish,
I am also sto:lo, Hawaiian, and swiss.
I respect who I am
It is a beautiful day today,
T'uy't'tanat- Cease Wyss is an interdisciplinary artist who works with new media, is an ethnobotanist and an emerging Coast Salish weaver: in both cedar and wool, as well as applying her skills in surface design through her textiles art practice, utilizing indigenous plants for dyes. Building on this ancient technology Cease will be embarking on a high tech project through Emily Carr College of Art and Design on Loretta Todd’s IM4: Indigenous Matriarchs 4 [as in the Sacred 4 directions] and will be building Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality worlds. Cease has been named the 2018 Indigenous Storyteller in Residence at the Vancouver Public Library and will be found at various libraries and community spaces from now til June. Her upcoming collaboration with Dene Artist Anne Riley and their Public Art project, “A Constellation of Remediation” will be focussed on Remediation of various sites that have endured colonial trauma, as well as being in need of different levels of remediation throughout Vancouver from now until 2019.
Cease recently completed an install at Semi Public, entitled Xaws Shew̓áy̓ :: New Growth, through a fellowship at Gallery 221a. The site has transformed from an empty lot to a Pacific Northwest Coast rainforest garden with Coast Salish formlines as the garden beds. The forest includes food, medicinal and utilitarian plants.
She is a member of the Aboriginal Writers Collective West Coast and lives in East Vancouver. She is a beekeeper and community engaged gardener.
Chapter 4 of Reflections on a window glass was conceived and realized on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) people.