Gyotaku at Auntie’s is a collection of Chinook Salmon gyotaku prints made during an Art 25 retreat at the home of a dear Auntie. Sustenance, ceremony, and offering are at the heart of this gathering and archive creation. Prints are not available for sale. Rather, they are to be given as gifts to loved ones and community members, to commemorate the great care and awareness in the taking of life for the nourishment of our own. Two Chinook Salmon were pole-caught by Art 25 collaborator Halla Taitano Hammoudeh. Collaborative meals were prepared from these beautiful fish, including kelaguin guihan (a CHamoru dish), salmon sushi bake, salmon consummé, and broiled salmon filets. Additionally, many salmon filets were frozen and gifted to family members, and salmon carcasses were composted to fertilize redwood trees growing at Auntie’s house. Gyotaku prints are vegetable-based gyotaku ink on various papers.

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