This work is an excerpt from a larger work in progress with photography from Soloman Chiniquay, ink & acrylic in collaboration with Jazmin Whitford & a cover for the final publication by Kwiis Hamilton. Soloman & Jaz's collaborative processes have always been a conversation about intentions, audience and experiences of home, grief and loss. Conversations are followed by independent creative decisions based on the gnawing aftermath of our sharing.

Soloman Chiniquay is a documentary photographer and filmmaker living between xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səl̓ilwətaɁɬ territory and his homelands of Treaty 7 territory. His lens-based work explores the ways he is welcomed to witness expressions of Indigeneity, creating imagery that attempts to show, in sometimes raw ways, the land and the people on it, the ways people use and connect to the land, and the artifacts they leave on it. 

Jaz Whitford is a mixed secwe̓pemc & scottish interdisciplinary artist who embodies anti-professionalism & anti-colonialism as a way to move toward a future where indigenous knowledge and ways of being are not only respected, but valued & revered. using a range of materials, forms and mediums they work to investigate and express their lived experience and understanding of spirituality, resistance, ancestral connections, and community care.

Artist websites: solomanchiniquay.com & jazwhitford.com