On the Back Road (2023), is an exploration of personal narratives filled with curiosity, imbued with Indigenous intimacies and transformed materials. The work started with a humble source of paper scraps gathered by my mother and shipped to me from Pine Ridge. The discarded fragments repurposed into a medium carries the narratives that arise as I’m traveling and living in new spaces. Each piece of work, whether it's the sculptural forms or the flat works, is built through layers of this hand-made paper, dyed with natural elements like sweet grass, ash, and India ink.