West Coster in the Winter!

Over the years I have learned to make a collection of outfits

to keep for myself - while I love to wear

the amazing outfits by mentor

textile artists like 

Joyce Mahima Little, Tseshaht Nation

and 

Denise Williams, Tla-o-quiaht Nation 

who has a formal design label

House of Winchee

people would always ask me 
if I made what I was wearing.

This re-cultured dress is my design and the 

recognizable U-shapes--whale tales--

are customarily red, black and white-- 

common colours of choice for most West Coast Artists.

However, I made this dress living in Toronto 
in the middle of winter!

I used turquoise and silver to represent the cold winter weather

and accented design with an outline 
of white thread

to represent snow 
that is all too common

in the Central Canada region I have been living

for nearly 5-years.

West Coaster in the Winter