{"id":371,"date":"2023-04-14T16:04:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T16:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalstorytelling.fims.uwo.ca\/?page_id=371"},"modified":"2023-04-14T16:53:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T16:53:53","slug":"mikaila-stevens","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalstorytelling.fims.uwo.ca\/index.php\/mikaila-stevens\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikaila Stevens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The following story is a digital art piece contributed by Mi\u2019kmaq artist Mikaila Stevens. Mikaila\u2019s beadwork and other creations can be found at Flourish and Grow<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019ve always done a lot of fractal designs. They come from a central point, and then they expand. I really like to use a lot of flowers, nature-inspired stuff in a lot of my work. When I want to represent people and places and things, I use a lot of flowers, nature, mountains, rivers. I use the central flower almost like a representation of a singular urban Indigenous Person, like myself in this case, and how that can expand through different communities and how it\u2019s not just necessarily being an urban Indigenous Person, but it\u2019s also what that community means, the outside of the urban community, and how it\u2019s all very interconnected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was a day I was just walking, and I like to take a lot of pictures, and I don\u2019t use a lot of my photography in a lot of my art as of yet, but I took one, and I looked at it, and I was like, \u201cThat\u2019s actually perfect.\u201d I showed the design to my friend without that picture, and they\u2019re like, \u201cThat\u2019s really cool. It\u2019d be cool if it was coming out of cement.\u201d I was like, \u201cOh my God, you gave me the perfect idea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mixed those two together because I saw the standing on the grass as being the connection to nature or connection to the earth, and then stumbling onto the idea of the urban Indigenous life and moving onto the concrete that still has that representation of that connection and also the traditional vibe of the nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

— Mikaila Stevens<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u00a9Mikaila Stevens, 2022. All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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