Coastal Lunar Lanterns
Summer Cannell
Musqueam, Canada
Summer Cannell
Musqueam, Canada
Summer Cannell is the granddaughter of Musqueam artist Susan Point. She attends West Point Grey Academy, where she enjoys art classes and art shows through her school. Together with her father, Thomas Cannell, Summer created a logo celebrating the Musqueam – YVR Friendship agreement. She collaborated to create a public artwork at the nearly completed Lelem Community Centre in UBC with her grandmother. Summer is a competitive figure skater in BC and a hobbyist photographer. In 2018 Summer won the Young Amateur Award in the Grizzly Bear Foundations photo contest “From Triggers to Tripods.”
Since the first hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ peoples began living here a millennia ago, until not long ago, Summer’s ancestors beheld a phenomenon that may never return. The waters around the river mouth would turn black. They called it Black Waters. Black because millions upon millions of salmon gathered in this area, waiting to enter the freshwater river to rediscover their spawning grounds. It was said that people could walk across the river on the backs of the returning salmon. They would wait until the tide was just right, at high tide, and then head up the river on a full moon.
Thoughts on “Family”:
“I maintain my family by returning love and affection. A healthy family’s positive feelings solidify our desire to know we are compatible with another human being. I love having a huge family; my family are my friends, and my friends are my family.”
Summer Cannell is the granddaughter of Musqueam artist Susan Point. She attends West Point Grey Academy, where she enjoys art classes and art shows through her school. Together with her father, Thomas Cannell, Summer created a logo celebrating the Musqueam – YVR Friendship agreement. She collaborated to create a public artwork at the nearly completed Lelem Community Centre in UBC with her grandmother. Summer is a competitive figure skater in BC and a hobbyist photographer. In 2018 Summer won the Young Amateur Award in the Grizzly Bear Foundations photo contest “From Triggers to Tripods.”
Since the first hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ peoples began living here a millennia ago, until not long ago, Summer’s ancestors beheld a phenomenon that may never return. The waters around the river mouth would turn black. They called it Black Waters. Black because millions upon millions of salmon gathered in this area, waiting to enter the freshwater river to rediscover their spawning grounds. It was said that people could walk across the river on the backs of the returning salmon. They would wait until the tide was just right, at high tide, and then head up the river on a full moon.
Thoughts on “Family”:
“I maintain my family by returning love and affection. A healthy family’s positive feelings solidify our desire to know we are compatible with another human being. I love having a huge family; my family are my friends, and my friends are my family.”
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