For my first “screen-printing” try last month (Nov. 2024), I was invited to reflect on place and otherness in those places. Admittedly I have become an avid tenkara fisherman (a type of fly-fishing) and have become a trout-addict. The brook trout, in particular, are elusive and endearing. This simple drawing became what you see here as the screen itself stained in these colors. The work is a meditation on “seeing”: how I see (or cannot see) life in the river, and the life I see when I’m fortunate enough to land these amazing creatures in my net. I always take a moment to look the fish in the eye, primal life grounding. A simple meditation named using the Anishinaabe word for brook trout (or “trout with spots on it”).