I am Lyric R. Ophelia, a mixed Jamaican and European settler currently living on the Moh’kinsstis and the traditional Treaty 7 territory of the Blackfoot confederacy, home to the Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, as well as the Stoney Nakoda and the Tsuut’ina nations, here in Calgary, Alberta. As a multimedia artist, I work with textiles, photography, scrapbooking, paints, pens, and creative writing, including fiction and non-fiction. My overarching creative focus is on the ecological crisis the globe is currently facing, along with the societal systems that have contributed to and continue to support the further destruction of the ecosystem. I strive to dive into the conversations of ancestry, homeland, grief, belonging, our ways of being, the landscape of dreaming, the construction of gendered society, and the voices that can only be heard in the quiet between heartbeats.