Video: Yawei Lin

On the unceded territory of Musqueam, Rachel Harris (dance), Omar Zubair (composer), myself (costumes and installation), and a choir of family, friends, and folks from the BC Choral Federation performed for the opening my exhibition, MOTHLIKE/silvery-blue. The audience surrounded us in the circular gallery, and what intimacy and magic happened as we honoured ecological ghosts of the Fraser River Estuary: wolverine, screech owl, silvery-blue butterfly, and elk. (These are animals whose ecological presence is still felt, and live elsewhere, but live here no longer.) This is the work -- to pay attention to what is here, and what is not here. This performance concluded a two-week extended score for the summer solstice.