“During the global pandemic, an increasingly contentious political landscape and the surge of energy from re-dedicating ourselves to racial justice in America, I’ve witnessed my incredible peers balance fear, bravery, a commitment to family, and to local and global communities of underrepresented people. I’ve seen them create art in response and build new systems of support. But among my friends, especially my female-identifying friends and especially those of us who are mothers, many of us are being asked to do the undoable daily. I wanted a message to remind the world that through change-making, we can’t let ourselves become kindling. I don’t want us to burn out. All the crises in the world today are asking us to run more and more current through the little filaments of our minds and souls, but when those go out, does it leave the world a brighter place? Of course, it doesn’t. The social, economic, physical, political, intellectual demands of a movement must bring with it the great care for and value of each human being who is part of it.”

Amelia Winger-Bearskin is an artist who innovates with artificial intelligence in ways that make a positive impact on our community and the environment.