{"title":"Quon, Drew","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrew - Quon Duk Ping - 关徳平 (all pronouns) is a multidisciplinary maker with a background in communication design. Born of Chinese and British parents, this Queer first generation settler was raised in Mi'kma'ki (Punamu'kwati'jk – “at the tomcod place” \/ Dartmouth), the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq people, where they currently reside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eArtist Statement\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI am dendrophile. I am biophile. I am Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrowing up in rural-suburbia Nova Scotia I was encouraged to wonder, left to wander. My art practice is intimately connected to my relationship as an animal and a settler with the lands and ecosystems of a degraded postcolonial Miꞌkmaꞌki, the evolution and fluidity of my sexuality and expression as a Queer, gender non-conforming holobiont being, and my multiracial experience with a culture steeped in the ongoing legacy of white supremacy. I create as a direct response to the reductionist society in which I live – where control and domination persist, with brutal outcomes for both lands and beings. My work explores otherness, memory and impermanence, relational entanglement, liminality, community, dis\/ability, regeneration cycles, eco-mythologies, and sensual Queer magic. In a collapsing world, (re)connection is more vital than ever before…\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1631\/2725\/collections\/The-Oracles_2023_b8565ee0-032c-4f98-8c55-417d7e4115c5.jpg?v=1782578334","url":"https:\/\/teichertgallery.ca\/collections\/quon-drew.oembed","provider":"Teichert Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}