Ayla Dmyterko

Ode to Olga

Ode to Olga

35mm documentation
size variable, 6 from a series of 9
2013

Presented at solo exhibition The Tale Began with a Beet (It Must End with The Devil) at Projet Pangée, Montréal, Canada

A pre-cellular telephone sits beside a bouquet of pink flowers in a warm-hued bedroom.

Ode to Olga

Observed on treaty 4 territory; the traditional lands of the Cree, Saulteaux, Dakota, Lakota and Nakoda, and homeland of the Métis/Michif Nation. This was once a one-room schoolhouse where my grandmother went to school, converted into her home and Olga's Beauty Salon where she lived and worked in Ituna, Saskatchewan, Canada.