In my family it was traditional to burn these ‘prayer papers’ when visiting the graves of our ancestors in the spring. The gold and orange colors indicated prosperity and burning them was a gesture to provide for our relatives in their afterlife. In this work I am borrowing and building on this tradition to offer our prayers for the Earth.

I invite you to write yours down on the backside of the paper, roll it up and tie a red thread around it to hang with all the other prayers. At the end of this exhibition I will take all the scrolls and burn them to send our collective prayers up to the sky and heavens above.

Over the last number of weeks I’ve been following the plight of our friends at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota and their resistance movement in the name of protecting our Earth. This piece was inspired by their work and is dedicated to them. It’s a small gesture, but I hope that somehow it makes a difference.

In my family it was traditional to burn these ‘prayer papers’ when visiting the graves of our ancestors in the spring. The gold and orange colors indicated prosperity and burning them was a gesture to provide for our relatives in their afterlife. In this work I am borrowing and building on this tradition to offer our prayers for the Earth.

I invite you to write yours down on the backside of the paper, roll it up and tie a red thread around it to hang with all the other prayers. At the end of this exhibition I will take all the scrolls and burn them to send our collective prayers up to the sky and heavens above.

Over the last number of weeks I’ve been following the plight of our friends at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota and their resistance movement in the name of protecting our Earth. This piece was inspired by their work and is dedicated to them. It’s a small gesture, but I hope that somehow it makes a difference.