Kimberly Fulton Orozco is orchestrating belonging through beauty-making rituals that refute ideas of authenticity placed on Indigenous artists by external authority. By reorganizing her understanding of identity through Haida storytelling, a metaphor of Mexican masking, and the role of poetry in visual language, she highlights tensions between an Indigenous past and colonial present— and an inherited burden of assimilation. Kimberly uses color, form, and sound to describe issues of cultural disruption and resulting emotional states. Using motifs of complexity with layers, luminescence, transparency, and abstraction, she holds feelings of alienation, isolation, seizure of identity, loss of language, and responsibility to nurture connection in community for future generations.
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