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Wally Dion: ‘caterpillar, egg, cocoon, moth’ (2019)

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Image courtesy of Wally Dion

Vivid, Translucent Quilts by Wally Dion Stitch Together Indigenous Culture and Making Traditions

For many rural and economically strapped communities throughout history, quilting was a necessity. Tattered clothing and blankets were cut up and refashioned into new blankets, their patchwork styles evidence of the fabrics’ earlier uses. For Indigenous people, though, quilts “hold a particularly important cultural value,” says artist Wally Dion, “appearing as gifts, ceremonial objects, and celebratory markers.”

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Grass Quilt, Wally Dion

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Green star quilt, by Wally Dion

“With his sculptural work “green star quilt,” visual artist Wally Dion (Canadian and Yellow Quill First Nation/Saulteaux) used recycled computer circuit boards, brass wire, and copper tubing to explore the evolution of Indigenous expression. Inspired by the star quilts from Lakota, Ojibwe, Crow, and other Northern Plains tribal communities, Dion’s work also illuminates the extraction and waste required to maintain our reliance on technology.”

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Wally Dion | DesignBoom

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Willy (Walter) Dion, caterpillar, egg cocoon, moth, 2019

Wally Dion b.1976, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Wally (Walter) Dion is a Canadian artist of Saulteaux ancestry living and working in Upstate

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Thunderbird (2008) Thunderbird II (2010) and Thunderbird III (2015) by Wally Dion (Saulteaux) circuit boards, plywood, nails

These are the Thunderbirds. They have existed in the past and continue their existence today. For thousands of years, people have fashioned mythologies in an attempt to understand the power and significance of the Thunderbird. Viewed collectively as fossils, or as living prophecy, Thunderbirds are pulled from the tar sands of Northern Alberta, hydro-fracked from the bed rock of the Marcellus Shale and resurrected from the uranium mines of Northern Saskatchewan to live again among human beings.

From Wally Dion's website.