My name is Lyric Robinson, I prefer Lyric R. Ophelia. I am a mixed Jamaican and European settler living on Moh’kinsstis, on the traditional Treaty 7 territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy—the traditional territories and home of the Blackfoot Nations, including the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina Nation, the Îyârhe Nakoda Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney First Nations, and Otipemisiwak Métis Government Districts 5 and 6 peoples, in what is now known as Calgary, Alberta.

I am a multimedia artist working with textiles, photography, scrapbooking, paint, pen, and the written word, weaving together fiction and non-fiction. My practice is rooted in the ecological crisis we are living through and the societal systems that have driven—and continue to drive—the destruction of our more-than-human world.

Through my work, I move between threads of ancestry, homeland, grief, and belonging. I am drawn to the ways our bodies remember, the stories carried in fabric and photograph, and the quiet knowledge held in land and water. I explore the landscapes of dreaming and the inherited scripts of a gendered society, asking what must be shed and what can be reclaimed.

Above all, I listen for the voices that emerge in the stillness between heartbeats: the subtle, often overlooked presences that invite us to slow down, to witness, and to imagine otherwise. My art is an ongoing conversation with these voices—a practice of mourning, questioning, and re-envisioning how we might live in deeper relation with each other and with the earth.