Future Arts Interview: Recontextualizing “Nature as Queen” in a New Media World
Redefine Magazine October, 2022
“Ancestral Future: Indigenized Landscapes,” by Seattle-based artists and community organizers Gabriel-Bello Diaz and Yes Segura, featured an augmented reality art mural, where digitized plants Indigenous to the Puget Sound region grew out of the exterior walls of a bar and spa on 9th Avenue. A voiceover by Melissa (BONI) Young (Tulalip), played through participants’ phones, reciting in the Lushootseed language the traditional names of three local plants: stəgʷəadac (Salmonberry), c̓əx̌ʷədac (Indian Plum), and xʷəlčƛ̕ (Wild Ginger).