Edward Fu-Chen Juan Bella Coola meets the ocean

Edward Fu-Chen Juan is a contemporary visual artist based in Vancouver, BC, the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. He identifies as a queer Taiwanese Canadian with ethnic roots from the Hakka and the Plains First Nation People of Taiwan. His art practice is printmaking on paper with water-based ink extracted from plant and insect ingredients. Presently, he has expanded his process to papermaking with unconventional plant fibres of significant cultural importance. This piece has ink pigment from Cardwell’s penstemon (Penstemon cardwellii), heart-leaved arnica (Arnica cordifolia), rocky mountain butterweed aster (Packera streptanthifolia), western pacific goldenrod (solidago elongata), twinberry honeysuckle (Lonicera involucrata), round-leaf serviceberry (amelanchier sanguinea), copper and iron mordant. From the 2022 artist residency at Firvale Wilderness Camp in Nuxalk First Nation traditional territory of Bella Coola, BC.