This piece was completed at San Fransisco arts Institute, I am the person in the photo. It is called Erased, I realized with this photo that at the point it was created that my culture has its isolation as well the modern world. My self being an Inland Tlinghit was set in a metropolis of Sanfransisco for two years. There I was mixed with a culture different from my home community of Teslin Yukon in Canada. There I live a traditional subsistance life as my past generations have done so for thousands of years. The complete difference I had once in San Fransisco Arts Institute set a dilemma for me to rea- interprerate my older works of stone, bone and wood; needed a new story. The force of the change meant a possible deconstruction between my world and the modern world. The piece Erased is the ability to disown both identities and have the ability to travel between both worlds.

More over the love of the land and the worship of the gift the land is what is important in life, creator is all things and the more that can be shared with family friends the better. My late granny said to me as a youg child, "I would rather have nothing all the time than something for a little while, it is a riddle I struggle with and attempt to realize its meaning.