Laiwanette
@laiwanette.bsky.social
Artist, writer, educator, cultural planner, fig. Toisan ancestry. Based on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
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Of The Tao, The Way, Wu Wei, Wabi Sabi countering what is existentially ill advised in contemporary production / performance of doing / overdoing — hyper digital intelligence not from 400BCE nor from 1423, but accelerating the last 31 of 200 years of waste in the name of doing 💅
October 15, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Of The Tao, The Way, Wu Wei, Wabi Sabi countering what is existentially ill advised in contemporary production / performance of doing / overdoing — hyper digital intelligence not from 400BCE nor from 1423, but accelerating the last 31 of 200 years of waste in the name of doing 💅
A few pieces now up at the exhibition “En Route: mobile forms of art & education” that opened at the Libby Leshgold Gallery at Emily Carr University on Sept 11, 2025
Big thanks Libby Leshgold Gallery, vk, Bopha, Troy & friends who came out to celebrate 100 years of ECU, & more time traveling. 💫🩵
Big thanks Libby Leshgold Gallery, vk, Bopha, Troy & friends who came out to celebrate 100 years of ECU, & more time traveling. 💫🩵
September 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
A few pieces now up at the exhibition “En Route: mobile forms of art & education” that opened at the Libby Leshgold Gallery at Emily Carr University on Sept 11, 2025
Big thanks Libby Leshgold Gallery, vk, Bopha, Troy & friends who came out to celebrate 100 years of ECU, & more time traveling. 💫🩵
Big thanks Libby Leshgold Gallery, vk, Bopha, Troy & friends who came out to celebrate 100 years of ECU, & more time traveling. 💫🩵
Sign and share 🔥 www.cjpme.org/no_more_loop...
September 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Sign and share 🔥 www.cjpme.org/no_more_loop...
Why is the advice individualistic — for each person to stop eating meat to save the climate? Instead the way we industrially relate to meat should be systemically changed. Stop capitalist exploitation & production for profit with its focus on low quality for mass quantity.
August 31, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Why is the advice individualistic — for each person to stop eating meat to save the climate? Instead the way we industrially relate to meat should be systemically changed. Stop capitalist exploitation & production for profit with its focus on low quality for mass quantity.
Please join us for the opening of En Route: mobile forms of art & education on Thurs, Sept 11, 6pm.
En Route: mobile forms of art & education brings together historical & contemporary source materials, media & artworks.
Image: lan Wallace, At Work, 1983. Photo courtesy of Or Gallery & Laiwan.
En Route: mobile forms of art & education brings together historical & contemporary source materials, media & artworks.
Image: lan Wallace, At Work, 1983. Photo courtesy of Or Gallery & Laiwan.
August 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Please join us for the opening of En Route: mobile forms of art & education on Thurs, Sept 11, 6pm.
En Route: mobile forms of art & education brings together historical & contemporary source materials, media & artworks.
Image: lan Wallace, At Work, 1983. Photo courtesy of Or Gallery & Laiwan.
En Route: mobile forms of art & education brings together historical & contemporary source materials, media & artworks.
Image: lan Wallace, At Work, 1983. Photo courtesy of Or Gallery & Laiwan.
While decolonization is not a metaphor, it is also not a performance. It demands immediate actions: settlers accept stepping aside, giving back, opening positions, giving healthy resources freely (if it’s been polluted or corrupted, fix it), provide capacity, stop taking up space, stop explaining.
August 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
While decolonization is not a metaphor, it is also not a performance. It demands immediate actions: settlers accept stepping aside, giving back, opening positions, giving healthy resources freely (if it’s been polluted or corrupted, fix it), provide capacity, stop taking up space, stop explaining.
Gratitude for abundance and generosity of the earth when left to do what she does - fruit picked from the backyard of a friend’s house that’s a rental with over a dozen different fruit varieties and a vegetable garden 🦋💕
August 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Gratitude for abundance and generosity of the earth when left to do what she does - fruit picked from the backyard of a friend’s house that’s a rental with over a dozen different fruit varieties and a vegetable garden 🦋💕
8am 8th day 8 month
August 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
8am 8th day 8 month
The narrative that “everything is getting more expensive” is so that everything can become more expensive. It is more expensive because we have given license for it to become expensive. Find the shopkeepers who are not price gouging you. Treat generous businesses well. Be selective & support local.
July 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The narrative that “everything is getting more expensive” is so that everything can become more expensive. It is more expensive because we have given license for it to become expensive. Find the shopkeepers who are not price gouging you. Treat generous businesses well. Be selective & support local.
How well are you embedded in your everyday with lives of local Indigenous folks, immigrants & migrants, BIPOC, trans & queers, underserved & unrepresented communities?
If you’re not naturally participating in these lives already, you are entangled in the white tantrum burst facing its extinction.
If you’re not naturally participating in these lives already, you are entangled in the white tantrum burst facing its extinction.
July 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM
How well are you embedded in your everyday with lives of local Indigenous folks, immigrants & migrants, BIPOC, trans & queers, underserved & unrepresented communities?
If you’re not naturally participating in these lives already, you are entangled in the white tantrum burst facing its extinction.
If you’re not naturally participating in these lives already, you are entangled in the white tantrum burst facing its extinction.
Tai Chi teaches how energy must be harnessed to not feed your opponent more energy. Direct focus on the opponent as an opponent legitimates the opponent’s stance so gaining more energy from you. This is true beyond the martial arts. To disarm them, energy must be harnessed in unexpected ways.
July 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Tai Chi teaches how energy must be harnessed to not feed your opponent more energy. Direct focus on the opponent as an opponent legitimates the opponent’s stance so gaining more energy from you. This is true beyond the martial arts. To disarm them, energy must be harnessed in unexpected ways.
Stormy clouds late afternoon, sea swoons, dramatic storm now thunder and lightning 💫
June 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Stormy clouds late afternoon, sea swoons, dramatic storm now thunder and lightning 💫
Lives of little clouds, hover and over, little islands ✨
June 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Lives of little clouds, hover and over, little islands ✨
When that kind of performance reminds me of apartheid performance - all very nice until it’s not.
June 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM
When that kind of performance reminds me of apartheid performance - all very nice until it’s not.
why plant beds are called beds as the shape of the body that lay here imprints leaves for me a breath of rest an arrest of flower friends invading dreams within this little body bed
May 28, 2025 at 3:17 AM
why plant beds are called beds as the shape of the body that lay here imprints leaves for me a breath of rest an arrest of flower friends invading dreams within this little body bed
A system will redefine goodwill. They enter a position with a political vision & promises made to find themself voting on parking spots, or building height, or supply chain for spare parts, or on who is to pay to fix the pothole or how to clear out the homeless. It’s a death by a 1000 cuts.
May 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
A system will redefine goodwill. They enter a position with a political vision & promises made to find themself voting on parking spots, or building height, or supply chain for spare parts, or on who is to pay to fix the pothole or how to clear out the homeless. It’s a death by a 1000 cuts.
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Oligarchy (noun):
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
April 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Oligarchy (noun):
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
April 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Advance voted. Done. 💫
First time in my life a pencil to make your vote mark is what is at the private ballot station. Aren’t pencil marks erasable?
#WhatInTheWorldIsComing
First time in my life a pencil to make your vote mark is what is at the private ballot station. Aren’t pencil marks erasable?
#WhatInTheWorldIsComing
April 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Advance voted. Done. 💫
First time in my life a pencil to make your vote mark is what is at the private ballot station. Aren’t pencil marks erasable?
#WhatInTheWorldIsComing
First time in my life a pencil to make your vote mark is what is at the private ballot station. Aren’t pencil marks erasable?
#WhatInTheWorldIsComing
