Two-Eyed Seeing

Two-Eyed Seeing 

is a body of work that investigates what it means to live,

see, and create from more than one cultural reality 

at the same time.

The concept of Two-Eyed Seeing

was introduced by Mi’kmaw Elder Albert Marshall,

who described it as learning to see from one eye with the strengths of Indigenous knowledge and

from the other with the strengths of Western knowledge,

and using both together.

This work is informed by that teaching while remaining grounded in Anishinaabe ways of knowing.

Expressed through contemporary abstraction and symbolic imagery, these works hold tension between inherited knowledge and lived experience without asking either to diminish.

Through layered colour, gesture, and form, the paintings map identity as something dynamic rather than fixed, where memory, presence, and visibility coexist.

Figures, hands, and energetic fields appear not as illustrations but as sites of movement and negotiation, reflecting the complexity of living fully between worlds.

Rather than separating tradition from contemporary expression, Two-Eyed Seeing treats each painting as part of an ongoing inquiry into

continuity, resilience, and self-determined voice.

This is not a story of loss, but of active presence: Indigenous identity as evolving, embodied, and unapologetically whole.

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Acquisition, licensing, and exhibition inquiries:
angelawigginsart@gmail.com