resilience for a native woman in 2020 living in an urban concrete jungle what does that look like i've kind of just realized that my medium it like my core medium is working with people regardless of what the art is that we create i'm yuri villard i'm a visual artist based in duluth minnesota i do a wide range of mediums and this project was madue ashka which translates into the waves can be heard in ojibwe and it celebrates the resilience of indigenous women on a very large scale the animation was projected onto the 400 by 49 foot wall in the lock by saint anthony falls water is the lifeblood of mother earth and this tribal native woman this is our connection kind of what inspired my work on this piece was to make something for folks who have been feeling some kind of disconnection either from the like through the pandemic or i've met a lot of people who have you know mixed indigenous ancestry and all the issues that kind of come with that it's an interesting time to have indigenous heritage because i think a lot of stuff is finally bubbling up to the surface the slice from wdse wrpt