Reminiscent of ancient goddess figures, this piece pays homage to the precolonial Choctaw people as a matriarchal society where a family’s lineage was traced through the mother’s bloodline with children belonging to their mother’s iksa (clan). This piece pays homage to the strength of the matriarchal system, as well as my own Nana and her mother who were both survivor’s of the St. Agnes Indian Boarding School in Ardmore, Oklahoma.

The sculpture in the photograph is constructed of colored tubes often used to gel fluorescent lights in gay bars and clubs. The triangles are held together by clear tape, and the structure is suspended by fishing line. I’d planned the shoot around this specific two-week period in the springtime when the grass and the leaves are neon green; timed right when the leaves have just emerged; still semi-translucent from the lack of chlorophyl filling the leaves.