Greg Staats (b.1963 Six Nations Territory) --- --- "1969" 2021

            “I’m interested in diverse layers of communication; paradoxically, of the wordless as an entity by which I mean, torn from the Tuscarora or Mohawk languages of my traditional belonging, I am presented with a void in my practice. Yet, I carry a reciprocal Responsibility of Knowledge, so returning to Six Nations as a participant in the land and an observer of its latent meanings, I have acquired a new enthusiasm through a de-essentialized process – of image gathering and being in a state of constant reflexive return. The dissociation brought about by my dilemma becomes a Wandering With Purpose that allows the gleaning of images and events as evidence stored within the land. Once this evidence is picked-up, I then decode and present what a wordless trauma would look like. Dissimilar images can also reveal unexpected affinities, as they shadowed one another.

I exist within the process of Transforming Belonging by way of selecting more complex images that challenge essential thinking. The images here are of deep personal connections to family, land and systemic deficits that continue to exist. Working through personal condolence countervails the dragging of an ancestral presence, which causes a traumatic shadow. The idea is to recognize that trauma precipitates a transitional stage of change.”

Greg Staats

Taken on: August 1, 2025

Sets appears in: • National Gallery of Canada

Camera: Fujifilm X-T5, f/6.4, 1/40 sec, 25.5mm (=38mm), ISO 1600 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Fujifilm X-T5
Lens:	XF16-50mmF2.8-4.8 R LM WR
Aperture:	f/6.4
Exposure Time:	0.025 sec (1/40)
Focal Length:	25.5mm (35mm equivalent: 38mm)
ISO:	1600
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 14.5.1 (Windows)
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