Welcome to the featured images!
Over the past two years these images made by hazel have evolved from physical stencils into digital files called vectors. And once an image is a vector, it will never lose resolution, no matter how you use it. Which means, the images can be reproduced in a variety of fun ways, from tiny to huge, from shower curtains to stickers! We are looking forward to sharing what our imaginations come up with!
In the meantime, you can click on the images to learn more about them and where they have hung.
Raven
Full of kinship and raw energy, Raven looks to the past and our ancestors while standing in the crystal clear here and now.
Buffalo Of Solidarity
In honouring the buffalo which stampeded at Standing Rock, we also recognize the perfection of Nature’s Golden Mean.
Mauna Kea
This image was created to support the efforts of the Indigenous people of Hawai’i in protecting Mauna Kea, their sacred mountain.
Bee Beauty
Fellow creative Sara Snediker integrates the bee in her medicine work, encouraging us to engage with our creative instincts.
Mother Spider
Mother Spider weaves a sack to hold her eggs, just as she weaves us together with language and story.
Milkyway Birth Canal
As her baby Odaemin grows in the womb, hazel expands to hold the universe.
Kinship Mandala
Made by hazel to be the logo for the flag project, with a kinship, raven, and flags, it is inspired by sacred geometry of the mandala – a word which means circle in Sanskrit and represents the universe.
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World Tree
Home and Belonging are explored, discovered, and nestled in the branches of this collective image of the medicine of community.
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Coyote
With images of the land and peoples of the west coast, trickster Coyote asks us to remember how we are all connected.
Bear of Reconciliation
When Reconciliation in Action came to the Downtown Eastside, Bear asked to come along and be part of the healing.
Joutsenta
A deep connection to the Finnish mythology is woven into the symbol of the swan, linking life and death, past and present, nature and humans.
13 Moons Turtle
Grandmother Turtle & the 13 Moons helps the Anishnaabek peoples orient themselves to their world with the wisdom of cycles.
Discover More about the Kinship Flag Project
Made By Hands
What is the technical process of making these?
How are these visions and stories transformed into a print or a flag?
PrayerStream
How do the flags impact the participants who make them, the communities who see them being made or displayed?
