06/15/2026
AVAILABLE WORK by Ben Pease. “Antique Hudson’s Bay Blanket”, 80” x 64”. Hudson’s Bay 3.5 bar wool blankets adorning beaded trade beads, cotton giveaway cloth, and cattle marker oil sticks.
“The Hudson’s Bay point blanket carries a second history. It was currency in the fur trade that remade the Northern Plains, and its stripes are now marketed back to Native people as heritage.
Onto this one I layered four portraits: Queen Elizabeth II, Justin Trudeau, Chief Crowfoot, and Louis Riel,two figures of the Crown, and two leaders who had to answer to it. Crowfoot accepted a hard peace to carry his people through the collapse of the buffalo. Riel went to the gallows for defending a nation the Crown refused to recognize.
I drew them over one another because that is how our histories are layered into the same story, inseparable. Watching my own community endure the pandemic at rates few others in this country faced, I returned to the question these four faces hold between them: which of our leaders watch over the people, and which watch over themselves.”
- Ben Pease
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