JAZ WHITFORD
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a closeup image of what apears to be metal with many layers of paint visible, as well as some rust a type of canvas with tiny hexagonal divisions, covered in an ornage lychen various lychen covering the bark of a tree thousands of crack in the pavement of a road lychen covering a peice of canvas patterns of exposed bark in a piece of wood with clear and distinct outlines that apear to converge in the center as if something with immense weight fell in the center of a piece of suspended fabric a peice of wood with layers of bark exposed in a random pattern a peice of wood with layers of bark exposed in a random pattern a peice of wood with layers of bark exposed in a random pattern a peice of wood with layers of bark exposed in a random pattern an outdoors landscape with a low hanging sun casting rays across a grassy hillside dotted with small coniferous trees a cloud streaked sky above a rocky terrain with a river running alongside a hill and dry shrubs covering the land a dry grass hill with a fence running alongside it and conifer trees in the distance in front of a hazy sky a clear sky above a a crytsal clear lake that makes tiny pebbles visible below the surface surrounded by coniferous trees a solar flare that encompasses the entire length of this photo shines above a green healthy looking field. Mountains are in the distance behind a row of coniferous trees. In the foreground a dead tree stands beside a young sapling a bright blue sky is above a hillside full of trees behind a flat field full of short halthy grass with one solitary pole in the center of the field Sunset falls on mountains casting a blue glow that is reflected on a somewhat windswept surface of a lake A piece of fabric in the lower left corner of a textured surface that looks what toast feels like on the tounge. the fabric has patterns that make blood red lines inward until in the center a box full of blood red dots mark the bulk of the fabric A closeup photo of animal hair, extremely curly, brownish hues and peppered with patches of more wirey course hairs a closeup image of very textured rocks with lots of organic folds that look like clumps of taffy a close up of folds of skin covered in slate grey short hair that are removed from the body it was attached to a trunk of wood covered in wirey hair topped with the same wrinkly skin in the previous image the hide of an anial with a pattern of short hairs and curly fluffy hairs a closeup of a fatty piece of flesh that has been cut in some way, attached to grey smooth looking tentacle like pollyps a closeup of a peiece of flesh that has been seperated from the outer layer of hair. it's texture contains woodgrain like patterns a smoky landscape makes the mouantin in the distance of this image very fuzzy a small building with birds pecking at the ground on a day filled with orange smoke
a series of photos documenting land, knowledge, teachings, and memory throughout Secwépemc, Skwxwú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaʔ, xʷməθkwəy̓əm, and Stó:lō territories
jaz is a 2 spirit anti-professional, working as an interdisciplinary artist centering community care, ancestral connections and qtpoc relief. they live semi-nomadically, along the unceded west coast of turtle island as well as the interior of so-called british columbia. jaz's ancestry ties them to unceded secwepemcúl'ecw in the southern interior of so-called british columbia and more distantly to scotland, though the bulk of their art practice blooms within the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (musqueam), skwxwú7mesh (squamish) and səl̓ílwətaʔ/selilwitulh (tsleil-waututh) nations where they have been overwhelmed with the warmheartedness, generosity and support of the host nations and indigiqueer community.

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