With printmaking, I combine my graphic drawing style with self-reflections on my genealogy and indigenous identity.

Having Lakota heritage on my mom’s side and Norwegian on my dad’s, I am very white-passing compared to many of my other Lakota relatives. For years I struggled with my identity, always feeling disconnected from my Lakota heritage but not feeling self-confident enough to explore it or claim it wholeheartedly. For most of these projects, I have chosen to reproduce family photos, combined and on their own, to compare myself to relatives on both sides of the family and accept both as who I am. Even though my parents have been divorced since I was in middle school, within me and my sibling they are still together, and I use my artistic process to reflect on the aspects, both negative and positive, that I received from both sides of the family.