A Land That Remembers
Erinn Kathryn + M. Earl Williams
March 7 - 29, 2026
Opening Reception
Saturday, March 7, 5-8pmOpen Hours
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EXHIBITION
A Land That Remembers assembles two distinct approaches to how landscapes endure over time. Erinn Kathryn engages material, labor, and deep temporal presence while M. Earl Williams centers relational sovereignty and continuity through story, image, and technology. Both practices witness the persistence of land beyond the constraints imposed by colonial systems, and their inherent ability to hold, transform, and endure.Kathryn’s installation, Echo of the Oak, evokes a quiet, lasting presence of what is both gone and still here, accentuating the tragic, enduring connection between the living world and an obsessive need to commodify. It eulogizes the memory of lost landscapes a half-millennium old, that thrived long before the colonialist drive and yearning for bigger/better/greater/more that leveled savannah woodlands of slow-growth hardwoods in pursuit of agriculture, industry, expansion, and possession. These landscapes were not empty nor passive; they were tended, known, cooperative, and alive. Her reassembled vertical bodies stand as afterimages; for things we may have not seen ourselves, but the land remembers, still.
www.erinnkathryn.com
IG: @erinnkathryn
Williams’s work, Ghost Dance in the Machine, draws on the Ghost Dance as both a historical movement and a living framework for imagining Indigenous futures. The Ghost Dance carried visions of renewal, resistance, and continuance at a moment of profound disruption. In the digital era, those visions resonate again as Indigenous people navigate virtual worlds, algorithms, and complex identities. Through digital media, Williams explores how Indigenous knowledge systems adapt, persist, and reassert sovereignty within our contemporary world where the lines between real and virtual experiences are blurring. These virtual landscapes created by Williams are not about escape or fantasy, but more a continuation of presence, memory, and relationality into the futures that are already unfolding.
www.mearlwilliams.com
IG: @m_earl_williams