My culture and idea of home is tied to Alaska, and I think it is these origins—a lineage that I was born into, and a land I was removed from, my cultural limbo and precarious balances—these have molded my identity and fueled my art. Because of circumstance or chance, I became an emigrant to my home, and in some respects to my culture. It is through art or ritual that I discover ways to find a root and affirm my position as a shifting self, understanding that in order to survive, identity and culture cannot be static. In order to sustain a genuine self, I create a world in which I shift to become one or all of my multiple visions of self. Considering the history of “identity art,” I want to explore the next wave of cultural examination, an evolution of new ways to demonstrate cultural identity beyond the polar ideas that exist in a solely black/white diaspora. I want to challenge ideas of cultural purity as well as discuss ideas of attraction, repulsion, exoticism, and gender or feminist notions. Through art and media, the cultural shapers of this generation, it is time for us to self-determine, to control our representation, and to address modernity, the merging of blood, and the myth of an authentic culture. I want to raise questions as well as declare convictions; challenge, deconstruct, and influence a new way of thinking about contemporary Native people, our life, and our art.