Soil Formation
Amanda Amour-Lynx
“This collection of works explores sacred relationships between ancestral knowledge, people, plants, animals, and land.”
Nasunikejk (elmitukwi’k) highlights sweet flag, a wetland plant whose long roots hold land together and connect water to earth. These root systems prevent erosion and stabilize soil—an essential yet often-overlooked ecosystem service. The piece honours ancestral wisdom, place-based stories, and the hope and grief tied to restoration.
Amanda Amour-Lynx
Netukulimk | Rewilding is an interactive augmented reality project grounded in Indigenous teachings that view all life as interconnected. Through dreamlike scenes of native plants, it invites care for the land. Revitalizing native species strengthens soil health, reinforcing the vital role of plants in maintaining living, nutrient-rich ground.
Other works explore queerness in nature. In Sqmoqniejk | I’ll find you in every lifetime, two leopard slugs—each with male and female traits—float together in glowing courtship. Jeremy tells the story of a rare snail with a left-spiraled shell who finds a mate after years of searching. These works celebrate nature’s many forms of gender and love.
Amuk Kji Nestmumk displays how bees see flowers in ultraviolet light. Where human vision sees simple petals, bees see glowing maps leading them to nectar.
What can we learn about empathy and awe by seeing the world through another’s eyes?
Amanda Amour-Lynx
Together, these pieces explore care, kinship, and stories that live within the land, soil, water, stars, and all beings.
“Dissolved heaps of skyscrapers were prairies tamped down by ambling buffalo.”
Quote from Jennifer Gouge’s Timeback, coming fall 2025