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Two Spirit Rising

August, Margaret

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August, Margaret
serigraph (hand-printed silkscreen)
Shíshálh, Coast Salish
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
2021
ink, paper
71/100
image size: 48.5 cm x 69 cm; paper size: 56 cm x 76.5 cm
This art piece depicts two Coast Salish thunderbirds surrounding a human figure in the middle. Thunderbirds are symbols of power, protection and strength. The supernatural powers of thunderbird spirits come to help the people and they provide spiritual protection. When they flap their wings, thunder and lightning strikes. It is said that they can take human form, and when they do they lift their heads up as shown in the design.

The human in this art piece represents Two-Spirit people because they bring special gifts to the world and offer the same kind of protection to the people as a Thunderbird would provide. Two-Spirit people are non binary, therefore they bring a balance to the world that would not otherwise be present. Their healing powers are very much needed on this earth. This is the reason why the thunderbirds are here to protect our sacred gendered people.
- Margaret August
This art piece depicts two Coast Salish thunderbirds surrounding a human figure in the middle. Thunderbirds are symbols of power, protection and strength. The supernatural powers of thunderbird spirits come to help the people and they provide spiritual protection. When they flap their wings, thunder and lightning strikes. It is said that they can take human form, and when they do they lift their heads up as shown in the design.

The human in this art piece represents Two-Spirit people because they bring special gifts to the world and offer the same kind of protection to the people as a Thunderbird would provide. Two-Spirit people are non binary, therefore they bring a balance to the world that would not otherwise be present. Their healing powers are very much needed on this earth. This is the reason why the thunderbirds are here to protect our sacred gendered people.
Print featuring Coast Salish design elements (predominantly crescents, circles, trigons). The left and right halves of the print are mirrors of eachother. Two thunderbirds rise in profile from the bottom of the image the top. In between the two creatures is a Two-Spirit person with a neutral expression. Above the figure, and shaped by the beaks of the thunderbirds, is an eye-like form.

White negative space defines the shape of the figures in the image. Red and blue forms accent the features of each figure.
LGBT2Q+, human figures, storms, supernatural beings, thunderbirds
Works on Paper
Coast Salish Design Elements
Purchased from Coastal Peoples Fine Art Gallery
U024.1.1

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