Moccasin Ominjimendaan/Remember, Waniike/Forget
2006
Vickers’s work explores memory, healing, and embodied connections to ancestral lands. Like scores of otherchildren in Canada, Vickers was barred from learning Indigenous history, knowledge, and traditions. The cultural loss she experienced and her ongoing process of regaining Indigenous knowledge and artistic skills became the foundation of her artistic practice. The traumatic histories of disappeared and murdered First Nations women in Canada form the conceptual backdrop of this work.
Blanket, chair, postcard, beer carton, beads, cardboard
36 x 15 x 16 in. (91.4 x 38.1 x 40.6 cm)
Gift of Lee Plested and Erik von Mueller
2021.22.1
Provenance: The artist; purchased by Lee Plested, Bellingham, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia; to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2021
