ANCIENT HEALING 7.00 and polar bears provide narrative

and polar bears provide narrative entry points for viewers

"I can't write a story or tell one in the white man's language so I tell what I want to say with my paintings

along with mammals and other wildlife

modern Indigenous success)

She always searches for those deeper treasures that exist beneath the surface

ANCIENT HEALING 7.00 and polar bears provide narrative"Raising the sick" Jane Ash Poitras is one of Canadas most important contemporary Indigenous artists. Her work is immediately recognizable for its layered, symbolic, and deeply narrative style, blending Western contemporary art techniques with Cree cultural knowledge and lived experience. A defining feature of her artwork is complex layering. She combines paint, collage, photographs, text, and found objects. Poitras' works often resemble visual