Current Art Statement--> December 2013

Kaila is a Klamath/Modoc woman named after the Klamath mythological character, G’eeLa (Ka-EE-La), who represents creation, the earth, and the land. She is a visual artist working with oil paint and various printmaking techniques using fabric, canvas and wood panels that collaborate with indigenous geologies. Her artistic expression and practice facilitates a personal journey of de-colonization/re-indigenization, navigating contemporary indigenous identity through forms of reclaimed ancestral knowledge. She explores images and symbols that represent an emergence of indigenous experience and expression, utilizing strong languages of color, form, and abstraction on two-dimensional surface. This expands into a visual experiences of architectural space that creates a conceptual dialogue via the orchestration of significant objects: paintings, hand-twined cordage, and stone people. She utilizes trickster consciousness through titles and text as a form of contextual entrance into the complexity of indigenous/settler colonial relationships, instigating language to inspire reflection. The aim is to bridge viewers toward concepts that discourse past hegemony, working towards indigenous postcolonialities.