My name is Lyric Robinson. I am a mixed Jamaican and European settler living on Moh’kinsstis, on the traditional Treaty 7 territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy—home to the Siksika, Kainai, and Piikani Nations, as well as the Stoney Nakoda and Tsuut’ina 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.