Blackfoot Paradigm
2020
pencil, ink pen
8″ x 10″
Produced for the Reconciliation Orange T-Shirt Design commissioned by the City of Lethbridge, Alberta.
“[Plants] don’t know the time. They don’t know the date. They don’t know those things we know as humans, how we calculate time. They only know their existence thrives on the seasons and thrives on the conditions of their lifespan. In the winter all the plants die. In the spring it’s renewal: everything comes back to life. [The plants] give life to us. They’re gifts from the earth that we don’t deserve. And so, I wanted to think about plants as not just inanimate things that grow from the ground. They’re medicine, they’re gifts, and they give to us.”
Chataya Holy Singer
About the Artist
Chataya Holy Singer is a Kainai Blackfoot interdisciplinary artist working with both traditional and contemporary mediums including photography, digital media, painting, drawing, performance, beading and sewing. Her work focuses on identity, spirituality, language, and traditional knowledge, integrating her Indigenous worldview through a contemporary perspective. Holy Singer is from Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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