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Welcome

My name is Qyya (pronounced 'kai-ya'), I'm a historian, textile artist, practitioner researcher, and storyteller - and this is the digital home of my creative practice. My work is a personal journey of reviving and preserving the traditions and the knowledge of my kinfolk and using them as a means to comment on contemporary issues, but above all, I aim to create an artistic experience that serves the communities in which it is hosted.

"The responsibility of the artist is to excavate the experience of the
people who produced him."

- Toni Morrison,
("Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation," The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, November 1984)


"Are we not human, can we not speak?" 
- Dionne Brand, cited by Christina Sharpe in Ordinary Notes (2023)

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