The Truth Revealed
"The lake was, I don't know what you'd call it, our fridge I guess.
It meant everything to our people. They took away
our culture, and lo and behold they took away our lake."
- Ray Silver, Elder of the Semá:th (Sumas) First Nation
Vancouver Sun, 2013
Sumas Lake was drained in the 1920s for settler agricultural expansion.
What was stolen once may be stolen again.
What will you remember? What will you resist?
The Art of Avery Lake
This work is not currently for sale.
It engages with the story of Sumas Lake and its forced erasure, a history that belongs to the Semá:th
(Sumas) First Nation.
Before any exhibition, sale, or reproduction, I am seeking to learn from and build relationship with the
community whose story this work references.
