Wilhelmina

A series of thirty-three newsletter-like prints installed in the windows of the Amazon Corporation offices, South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle, WA. Created as a part of the Shunpike Storefronts program.

In the late 1800s a man began publishing the Hagaga newsletter in my family’s ancestral home, the Nass River Valley of British Columbia, Canada. For me, the Hagaga newsletter represents the cultural genocide from colonialism that erased Indigenous knowledge.

When my grandmother died there were still many things I wanted to tell her. I placed the knowledge that I wanted to share with my Indigenous family in my own newsletters formatted to mimic Hagaga and reclaim the instruments of knowledge. I included images, a headline message, and the headline repeated in braille format for my blind ancestor, Wilhelmina.