Two-Eyed Energy

Two-Eyed Energy 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.

Rooted in Anishinaabe ways of knowing and 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 Energy 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.