Brost Foundation

This 12’ private commission is the next in Carey’s Totem 2.0 series.

This 16’ pole is being carved from a piece of salvaged red cedar.

Creating a virtual reality version of the Witness Blanket is an effort to make the artwork more accessible to a wider audience.

An ongoing project with the University of Victoria, Carey is working towards designing a 3D model for a cedar totem pole - one that will be carved generations from now after a sapling planted on campus reaches full maturity. The aim of the project is to create a plan that can be committed to for decades to come. The work opposes standard four-year election cycles or fiscal year ends, as a way to nourish our relationship with the land and question colonial systems in power.

The site-specific designs integrated into this building façade are inspired by species that once thrived in the mudflats known as xwsзyq’әm. This part of the harbour was filled in and developed in the early 1900’s displacing Lekwungen people. Memories of Xwsзyq’әm is a recognition of the layered histories of the lands we inhabit and a call for us to remember, honour and respect the original Peoples of these territories.