1.0https://alyssahinton.com/blogAlyssa Hintonhttps://alyssahinton.com/blog/author/alyssahi/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="q1sQdLHTyX"><a href="https://alyssahinton.com/blog/event-youtube-indigeneity-decoloniality-artists-talk/">FEATURE- YouTube, INDIGENEITY DECOLONIALITY ARTISTS TALK</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://alyssahinton.com/blog/event-youtube-indigeneity-decoloniality-artists-talk/embed/#?secret=q1sQdLHTyX" width="600" height="338" title="“FEATURE- YouTube, INDIGENEITY DECOLONIALITY ARTISTS TALK” — " data-secret="q1sQdLHTyX" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://alyssahinton.com/blog/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js /* ]]> */ </script> https://alyssahinton.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Duke-Indigeneity-Alyssa-Hinton-Talk-590Pix-e1400085261712.png200122INDIGENEITY DECOLONIALITY ARTISTS TALK. …”It’s called the Indigenous Iconic Earth Altar. You see the turtle again showing up. That’s the one that’s in the southern direction, which is the reddish/bluish part of the medicine wheel there. It’s obviously a shift in the media that I’m using because this is 3 dimensional and it’s fiber. It’s not paper collage and it’s not digital collage. The other ones were either actual handmade collage from my pre-computer days, or they were a similar technique but using pixels and cutting tools instead of scissors…. obviously this is something totally different, but I’m using and combining all the same themes really. I’m just kind of tying it all together and I’m adding traditional handwork like on the little extensions from the turtle piece where you see beadwork and feathers and what not. I’m combining that with digital tools, digital printing, all kinds of recycling…and by doing that I’m showing an interdependence relating to technology because I’m using modern high-tech stuff and I’m using the age old stuff as well. Not just the old handwork techniques, but also very old concepts, really powerful concepts, that revolve around a holistic understanding of the universe and the human relationship to all life forms, all levels and planes of knowing, all cycles, seasons, all the elements, it just keeps going on and on forever. You know the medicine wheel is a philosophy that basically talks about how we’re part of everything and everything is part of us. And it’s inherently an environmental statement because by thinking that way it automatically makes you look at the whole picture and makes you realize,