paulseesequasis
@paulseesequasis.bsky.social
Curator, writer, photography. Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun. People of the Watershed (one of ‘the 10 best things about visual arts in 2024’) - The Globe and Mail.
Stunner: Kwakwaka’wakw-style “Urchin Mask” by artist Tim Alfred @vanartgallery.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Stunner: Kwakwaka’wakw-style “Urchin Mask” by artist Tim Alfred @vanartgallery.bsky.social
‘Open my legs
Lie down with death
We kiss, we sigh, we sweat…
I twist, I bite
The foxes chatter in the night’
Witch Dance | Everybody Scream
Florence Welch, Mark Bowen
Lie down with death
We kiss, we sigh, we sweat…
I twist, I bite
The foxes chatter in the night’
Witch Dance | Everybody Scream
Florence Welch, Mark Bowen
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 AM
‘Open my legs
Lie down with death
We kiss, we sigh, we sweat…
I twist, I bite
The foxes chatter in the night’
Witch Dance | Everybody Scream
Florence Welch, Mark Bowen
Lie down with death
We kiss, we sigh, we sweat…
I twist, I bite
The foxes chatter in the night’
Witch Dance | Everybody Scream
Florence Welch, Mark Bowen
Raven on the Colonial Fleet, 2010 (feathered headdress, painted corset, dance robe, sequinned robe & boots) by Skeena Reece. Part of ‘We Who Have Known Tides’ @vanartgallery.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Raven on the Colonial Fleet, 2010 (feathered headdress, painted corset, dance robe, sequinned robe & boots) by Skeena Reece. Part of ‘We Who Have Known Tides’ @vanartgallery.bsky.social
Princess White Deer (Esther Louise Georgette Deer (1891-1992) of Kahnawake, in Broadway Brevities, the 'notorious' gossip rag of the 1920s. As PWD, Esther Deer was a very successful vaudeville actor, performing across stages, from New York to Paris. Labeled as one of 'the most beautiful women in...
November 6, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Princess White Deer (Esther Louise Georgette Deer (1891-1992) of Kahnawake, in Broadway Brevities, the 'notorious' gossip rag of the 1920s. As PWD, Esther Deer was a very successful vaudeville actor, performing across stages, from New York to Paris. Labeled as one of 'the most beautiful women in...
Hello Vancouver. Your late fall attire is especially captivating today.
November 4, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Hello Vancouver. Your late fall attire is especially captivating today.
If you’re visiting Seattle I highly recommend Salish Sea Cruises, owned by Kyle Griffith, enrolled member of the Chinook Indian Nation, a narrated cruise of Elliot Bay, with gorgeous views and also, importantly, the Indigenous history of the Salish Sea peoples.
November 2, 2025 at 11:31 PM
If you’re visiting Seattle I highly recommend Salish Sea Cruises, owned by Kyle Griffith, enrolled member of the Chinook Indian Nation, a narrated cruise of Elliot Bay, with gorgeous views and also, importantly, the Indigenous history of the Salish Sea peoples.
Come as you are: Krist Novoselic’s Gibson bass (prototype) in the lobby of the Hotel Max in downtown Seattle.
November 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Come as you are: Krist Novoselic’s Gibson bass (prototype) in the lobby of the Hotel Max in downtown Seattle.
Art wall, Seattle
October 31, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Art wall, Seattle
Add vinyl curated by sub pop and a turntable to your room and you’re set.
October 31, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Add vinyl curated by sub pop and a turntable to your room and you’re set.
When you know you’ve checked
in, in Seattle
in, in Seattle
October 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
When you know you’ve checked
in, in Seattle
in, in Seattle
Truss bridge at Dorothy, Alberta.
📷iPhone 16 Pro
📷iPhone 16 Pro
October 29, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Truss bridge at Dorothy, Alberta.
📷iPhone 16 Pro
📷iPhone 16 Pro
Walking the trail last evening, a large dog sauntered past me, noticed no collar, and then no owner. Just a cousin, mêstacâkan, minding their own business.
October 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Walking the trail last evening, a large dog sauntered past me, noticed no collar, and then no owner. Just a cousin, mêstacâkan, minding their own business.
‘Raven and the first men,’ Bill Reid (Haida). Museum of Archaeology, Vancouver, BC: ‘It wasn’t long before one, then another of the little shell brothers, timidly emerged. Some of them immediately scurried back when they saw the immensity of the sea and the sky and…
October 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
‘Raven and the first men,’ Bill Reid (Haida). Museum of Archaeology, Vancouver, BC: ‘It wasn’t long before one, then another of the little shell brothers, timidly emerged. Some of them immediately scurried back when they saw the immensity of the sea and the sky and…
‘Bone Box’ by Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas at the Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC. “Fabricated out of discarded trays that once stored archeological collections, this interactive work calls for us to engage with one another.”
October 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
‘Bone Box’ by Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas at the Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC. “Fabricated out of discarded trays that once stored archeological collections, this interactive work calls for us to engage with one another.”
Full house at Museum of Anthropology tonight for ‘Beyond Fires & Floods, Indigenous narratives in an era of extremes,’ with Rick Harp, Judi Kochun, Tanya Talaga and Mark Trahant, and myself.
October 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Full house at Museum of Anthropology tonight for ‘Beyond Fires & Floods, Indigenous narratives in an era of extremes,’ with Rick Harp, Judi Kochun, Tanya Talaga and Mark Trahant, and myself.
Seattle-bound soon. A time to recharge and recalibrate in a city I like. Pictured, one of the places you may find me.
October 24, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Seattle-bound soon. A time to recharge and recalibrate in a city I like. Pictured, one of the places you may find me.
That fleeting fall light
October 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
That fleeting fall light
Jane Birkin, Paris, 1970s.
📷 Rex Features
📷 Rex Features
October 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Jane Birkin, Paris, 1970s.
📷 Rex Features
📷 Rex Features
Quechua photographer Martín Chambi displays his sense of camp in his 1934 self portrait riding on Mario Pérez Yáñez’s Indian motorcycle. The first motorcycle in Cuzco, Peru.
📷 Martín Chambi | Jan Mulder Collection
📷 Martín Chambi | Jan Mulder Collection
October 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Quechua photographer Martín Chambi displays his sense of camp in his 1934 self portrait riding on Mario Pérez Yáñez’s Indian motorcycle. The first motorcycle in Cuzco, Peru.
📷 Martín Chambi | Jan Mulder Collection
📷 Martín Chambi | Jan Mulder Collection
Nick Drake's last photo shoot: "One photo from that session endures the best for me. Annie Sullivan remembers: “I had my dog Gus, a golden retriever, with me. I’d brought him along because everybody liked Gus, and also dogs have a way of getting through something, where people don’t. Nick didn’t
October 18, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Nick Drake's last photo shoot: "One photo from that session endures the best for me. Annie Sullivan remembers: “I had my dog Gus, a golden retriever, with me. I’d brought him along because everybody liked Gus, and also dogs have a way of getting through something, where people don’t. Nick didn’t
Eugène Atget’s unflinching, unromantic, street portraits of 1900s Paris.
📷 Eugène Atget | Paris (TASCHEN)
📷 Eugène Atget | Paris (TASCHEN)
October 16, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Eugène Atget’s unflinching, unromantic, street portraits of 1900s Paris.
📷 Eugène Atget | Paris (TASCHEN)
📷 Eugène Atget | Paris (TASCHEN)
Along the boardwalk in Attawapiskat in 1955. From 'People of the Watershed: Photographs of John Macfie' now at The Muse: Lake of the Woods Museum, Kenore, Ontario until Dec. 21.
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📷 John Macfie | © Macfie Family Estate
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📷 John Macfie | © Macfie Family Estate
October 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Along the boardwalk in Attawapiskat in 1955. From 'People of the Watershed: Photographs of John Macfie' now at The Muse: Lake of the Woods Museum, Kenore, Ontario until Dec. 21.
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📷 John Macfie | © Macfie Family Estate
themusekenora.ca/.../people-o...
📷 John Macfie | © Macfie Family Estate
Landmark exhibition finally honors George Morrison (Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa), ‘it also introduces the museum-going public to an artist who has long been sequestered because of his ethnicity. The Ojibwe artist was
October 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Landmark exhibition finally honors George Morrison (Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa), ‘it also introduces the museum-going public to an artist who has long been sequestered because of his ethnicity. The Ojibwe artist was
“I’d become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what colour they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less a bad shake. I thought I had the instinct toward championing the cause.” - Gordon Parks
October 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
“I’d become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what colour they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less a bad shake. I thought I had the instinct toward championing the cause.” - Gordon Parks