Kale’a Calica-Younker

ART - BFA

Cage I, 2022, silver & cord, 3 x 1.75 x 1 inches

Ribbon I, 2022, silver, 3.5 x 2.2 x .75 inches

I am interested in disrupting what we understand and what we see through ambiguity and abstraction in my drawing practice. Disrupting familiar floral shapes and cage forms to merge my Indigenous worldview with the settler-colonial world. With the intersection of organic forms with rigid structures, I want to confuse and uncomfortably marry Indigenous futurisms and traditions with Contemporary Western art perspectives. My work explores how I understand both Indigenous and a settler-colonial spaces. My work also investigates how do I navigate existing in the periphery and how do I bring focus to what exists only in the periphery.

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Leather I, 2022, silver & bronze, 2 x 4 .75 inches

Bow I, 2022, silver, rubber, & copper, 4 x 2.5 x 1 inches