Flying Geese by Tyler Eash was inspired by a similarity in the geometry of stacked security barricades with the Maidu basket pattern of the same name. The Maidu are Indigenous Americans of northern California and victims of brutal ethnic cleansing and forced assimilation. Maidu are considered exemplary basketweavers, who believe their baskets are living beings. These baskets were “collected,” especially during the so-called “basket craze,” which followed the worst of the California Genocide.

For the limited edition artwork, Eash created a digital collage with cropped images of the temporary fencing rearranged over photographs of open skies seen through a glass of water. By reworking a found form, Tyler Eash seeks to transform a Western object of control and authority into an Indigenous symbol of freedom and solidarity.

Tyler Eash (1988, Turtle Island) is a Maidu 2Spirit artist with Modoc and Irish ancestry, born and raised on the unceded Nisenan Maidu territory of Táisidam (Marysville), northern California. Eash uses dance, painting, sculpture, and poetry, to dovetail Indigenous cultural materials, symbols and forms with aesthetics and detritus of Anglo-colonial working-class California to create a picture of a Maidu worldview.

Eash has a Master of Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London (2019). Exhibitions include: Nîmes Triennial, CACN – Centre d’Art Contemporain de Nîmes, FR (2024); Nicoletti, London (2023); Further, San Francisco; Four Fourteen Gallery, Marysville, NÉVÉ, Los Angeles and Jägerschere, Brandenburg (all 2022); and Loreum, Nicoletti, London (2020).

This artwork is part of a series of limited-edition artworks on Indigenous creative resistance, curated by Ché Zara Blomfield for Progressive International. Proceeds from the sale of this artwork go towards Progressive International.

Flying Geese is a numbered limited edition of 150
Printed on Premium Luster Photo Paper Poster 16” x 20” (41 x 51 cm), the frame is not included.

• 10 mil (0.25 mm) thick
• Slightly glossy
• Fingerprint resistant
• Paper sourced from Japan

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