# Cover Artwork: Encounters

## Artist Statement

Darlene St. Georges, University of Lethbridge

darlene.stgeorges@uleth.ca

As a Métis artist, poet, educator and emerging scholar, my creation-research endeavors to explore, through an evolving ontological process, my deepening connection with All My Relations. My artworks can be viewed as an embodiment of my relational inward and outward journey.

<figure><img src="image_1.png" /><figcaption>St. Georges, D. (2016). *Encounters* [Oil on 16 12 x 12 canvases]. Artist's private collection. Lethbridge, AB.</figcaption></figure>