I am Lyric Ophelia Robinson, 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 and pens, and creative fiction and non-fiction writing. My overarching creative focus is on the ecological crisis the globe is currently facing, along with the societal systems that have led to and continue to support furthering the 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 heart beats.