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image description: a black and white photograph. a light skinned Indigenous person’s hand and wrist, with a fresh hand poked tattoo and an older hand poked tattoo by two different artists. the band closer to their wrist is by louis esme, 2019
image description: a black and white photograph. a light skinned Indigenous woman with freshly skin stitched lines in the middle of her ring finger.
louis esmé, 2019
image description: a black and white photograph of a light skinned Indigenous person with fresh skin stitched tattoos, one on each wrist.
louis esmé, 2018
image description: black and white photograph. a dark skinned Indigenous person’s fresh skin stitched tattoo in Cree syllabics.
louis esmé, 2019
image description: a black and white photograph. a light skinned Indigenous person’s freshly hand poked tattoo of a sunflower beetle on their upper thigh.
louis esmé, 2018
image description: a black and white photograph. a light skinned Indigenous person’s freshly hand poked and skin stitched tattoo on their inner calf.
louis esmé, 2018
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(Screenshot)LOOSE LIPS
Animation
5 mins.
A memory of the land and ancestors around the Annapolis Valley. The animated petroglyphs are rubbings from Kejimkujik, while the moving images were self recorded near Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, Wabanakik.
Please email for a preview copy.
Screenings
Mourning During a Pandemic
CFMDC.tv, 2021
Images Festival, 2020
- Recipient of the Steam Whistle Homebrew Award
MALDEWIN WESKIJINU / BLOOD SOAKED SOIL
Gardiner Museum Intervention
Photos courtesy of the Gardiner Museum
Gardiner Museum Intervention
Photos courtesy of the Gardiner Museum
louis esmé, 2018
louis esmé, 2018
louis esmé, 2018
louis esmé, 2018