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A Frayed Knot / AFRAID NOT – JACQUELINE KEELER: READING + PRESENTATION
October 2, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
FreeJoin us for a presentation of a new essay by writer Jacqueline Keeler, created in response to Cannupa Hanska Luger’s exhibition, A Frayed Knot / AFRAID NOT. This is a free, open to the public event.
ABOUT THE WRITER
Jacqueline Keeler is a Diné/Ihanktonwan Dakota writer. Her book The Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears is available from Torrey House Press and the forthcoming Standing Rock to the Bundy Standoff: Occupation, Native Sovereignty, and the Fight for Sacred Landscapes will be released next year.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
A Frayed Knot
There is a line, that spans across time in a continuum. This line is the record of our existence and is woven into the very fabric of being. But this line, through tension or abrasion or brute force, has been cut. The edge of this line is broken and unravelling. In order to connect to our past we must take up that line in both hands and tie it to our present in order to guide us into the future. Our stories are a long worn line and the effort to maintain them has left an artifact of that care in the form of A Frayed Knot.