We Are Our Own Discoverers

Amaani Hepburn
Cydne Jasmin Coleby
Heino Schmid
Matthew David Rahming

“We are our own discoverers, staking claim to territory,” wrote the late Patricia Glinton-Meicholas in her poem “Staking Claim to Our Souls”, from her collection “Chasing Light”. This excerpt from the poem is both an invocation and a challenge in “We Are Our Own Discoverers,” curated by Christina Wong – Turnquest, a group exhibition presenting four explorers, Amaani Hepburn, Cydne Jasmin Coleby, Heino Schmid, and Matthew David Rahming, positioned as adventurers and discoverers entrusted with a fearless mission: to investigate the undercurrents of community, culture, and identity. Grounded in the enduring pursuit of truth-seeking, which requires a determined form of searching, an inward excavation as much as an outward journey.