The 2021 Fairy Creek Blockade was a historic act of civil disobedience, uniting many Indigenous and non – Indigenous communities against the devastation of old-growth trees in British Columbia’s last untouched valley outside of national parks.
 
Creating an image of a braver self I manipulate charcoal, a medium of burnt wood, onto paper crafted from pulp. Shifting, erasing, and revising, the act of drawing is a physical document of human touch. Wearing red plaid, a tartan legacy steeped in the history of a revolutionary past, she embodies an outsider’s desire to take a stand, once and for all.