This image was commissioned by IndigenEYEZ.

This is part of the reason Coyote’s head is proportionately larger, to allow for a focus on the eyes - one eye seeing into our modern, mundane world and one experiencing the ancient, mythical world. The heart on the bridge of Coyote’s nose encourages a balance of these two perspectives, holding human and spirit together. Coyote also holds the trinity - spirit, great mystery and human consciousness - in the various images blended into the body. The four directions as the four food chiefs inform the heart of Coyote, with bear, salmon, bitter root, and sasketoon berries hinting at inter-generational knowledge and a healthy way of living in tandem with the wild natural world. The spinning wheel reflects cultural traditions and ways of being which involved paying attention to the seasons, and saying prayers, honouring the land which gives us life.

And Coyote is first and foremost the trickster, the one asking the difficult questions, trying to get us to look beyond what we see in front of us, and find the truth in our own hearts and to be ready for anything in the work to weave us whole.

Smudge pot
Spinning wheel of Fibonacci - everything is spinning (cosmically)
An actual heart between spirit and the three-dimensional world's structure, a bridge between and the experience of both
Different lodges - long house, pit house, teepee
A kinship coming in from the cosmos
The forest with lightening

Birth: 2017 - Commissioned by IndigenEYEZ