Jill Marie
Holslin

Unsettled Artifacts

Unsettled Artifacts is a project that engages with the constructed image, weaving together family photographs, land deeds, and plat maps from my grandfather's archive with my own photographs of native plants from Dakota and Ojibwe lands in Minnesota. Using fine art photographic paper, transparent film, and mylar, I cut and weave the images to create layered compositions where past and present intersect. At a moment when climate change and renewed appeals to a mythic "American greatness" shape public debate, I invite audiences to reconsider the stories we inherit about land, history, and belonging—and to imagine other ways of listening to the land and the histories it holds.