I take photographs as a way to record evidence of my Indigenous Siletz identity. By working with these pictures I take from my iphone I use mapping technology to draw a gridded plan for beaded works that regenerate these images. Once the picture has been pixelated through the software’s filter, I hand-bead the resulting pattern. Beading from the digital patterns becomes a visual metaphor for how cultural knowledge travels across generations which is distorted, filtered and has shifted.

Through this process, my beadwork is coded to reveal and obscure my experiences of kinship within my family. Each bead is a meditative step toward reconnecting with my ancestors and myself. The resolution of the image created by the beads becomes a tool for questioning what is unseen—what has been erased or forgotten in the fabric of my Siletz identity.