"Mia" LIMITED Edition Photographic Print
LIMITED EDITON PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS are a unique representation on their own, printed on metallic paper and are mat board supported. They are currently offered in two larger sizes per portrait and are limited to 45 prints per size, per portrait. That means that for each portrait there are only 90 limited edition prints total, and when they are gone we will not print anymore of them. Each limited edition print will be hand signed by the Artist, numbered, and will include an artists bill of sale and an original Certificate of Authenticity with each sale.
OPEN EDITION PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS are printed on metallic paper and are mat board supported. These prints will be limited to one small size, with no limit to the number of prints that will be sold. Each print will be hand signed and will include an artists bill of sale and certificate of authenticity.
Each print sale will also include a description of the portrait purchased when applicable.
Right now these are set up as print on demand so please allow up to 2 weeks for delivery.
“Mia” English name
Biidaabanookwe/The Coming of the Light of Day Woman 2019
72”H x 50”W 189cmH x 127cmW
(Artist’s Daughter)
The meaning within this portrait had not yet fully revealed itself for me, but my 17 year old son shared with me some incredible insight into her portrait that definitely speaks to me. He said that what he saw, is that in my heaviest portraits "Prayer for Jordan" and “Robert” the darkness and despair in those portraits are represented in the left bottom corner of the piece and extend out from there. And the lightness and hope in those pieces are visually depicted in the upper right hand corner. Jordan can't see the light but that is the direction the goldfinches are coming from. Robert isn’t looking at the light but he knows it’s there, showing it to the kids who are fully facing it. Those are connections I had not yet made.
To him, in this portrait, Mia has grown up too fast and I agree. She does not behave like a ten year old. I often tease her that I think this isn’t her first time on this Earth. This child of mine is wise beyond her years; academically, emotionally, and spiritually. She skipped the third grade and was moved into a fourth and fifth grade class where she quickly rose to the top academically, they were worried she'd get bored but when she's finished her work she enjoys helping others. This child of mine also at age three, told me that mosquitos had the right to eat too as I watched her sit incredibly still letting them suck her blood. She participated in her first spiritual ceremony at age three. When she did, she only came out of the wigwam to go to the bathroom, and she would run there and back. I would try to kiss her and hug her as she ran but she would say “Mom, let go I don't want to miss anything!” And so she sat there in silence all day with the grownups. Her contribution in equal measure to theirs. To Elias, Mia has taken the weight of the world upon her shoulders, visually represented by the blanket she wears, and she is pulling us all out of the darkness and into the light.