syilx Okanagan artist turns pictographs into towering 3D figures
- Syilx Okanagan artist Qayqiwcwiyia Taylor Baptiste returned to her community to showcase two sculptures titled 'How Turtle Set the Animal People Free' and 'Flight of Union' at the Qayisxn: Off the Rocks exhibit at UBCO, open until January 22.
- The exhibit opened on January 9, 2025, and celebrates the importance of ochre pigment in Syilx Okanagan culture, as generations have used it for pictograph mark-making.
- Baptiste's sculptures aim to connect Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities through art, emphasizing the need to respect and protect pictographs, especially after instances of vandalism.
- Baptiste expressed that having her sculptures displayed in her ancestral territory is a significant homecoming, stating, 'These symbols are so important and integral to our culture and who we are as Okanagan people.
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