This artist infuses living Mi'kmaq history into every inch of this dazzling print

Eight Canadian artists have returned to the famed lithography workshop at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, to work with a master and create some fresh prints. Print's Not Dead follows these artists through the process — how they're making their works and the thinking that informed them.

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We've featured Jordan Bennett before at CBC Arts, and we've returned to him both for the strength of his work and because he's one of the eight artists continuing the legacy of the lithography workshop at NSCAD University. Often, Bennett's designs have been rooted in Mi'kmaq quillwork — and he repeatedly returns to porcupine quillwork as a source of inspiration.

In Bennett's print, he references the everyday life of Mi'kmaq people. Bennett says, "The entirety of this piece, colour-wise, represents different stages of the day, all the different cycles on the day of the season, the life. For me these represent clouds. These designs and many different nations across Turtle Island, that's what they represent — clouds, cloud designs."

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