Modern Fuel presents ‘condolence’, an ongoing photo and video series by the artist Greg Staats that depicts the process of his reconnection with a traditional Haudenosaunee [Iroquois] restorative aesthetic.

The sadness that is felt from his personal loss of the Mohawk language and subsequent worldview and the networks defined by culture motivates Greg Staats’ recent video and photographic works to act as a series of mnemonic devices. In place of this systemic deficit, he has assembled and created an archive of photographic images and documents, both personal and familial. This restitution and the residual visual documents produced by it create and maintain strong connections with the land, nation, community, and family.