indigenous artist

I create as a way of honoring where I come from while speaking to where we are now, by bridging ancestral knowledge and modern experience.

My name is sčʕačʕaypx skekʕakaʔ, and I am member of the Schitsu-umsh (Coeur d'Alene Tribe)

I am the President of the Board of Directors at the Salish School of Spokane where my wife teaches and our children attend school.

augmented reality (AR)

Language Wall

In 2021, I was commissioned to paint a mural on an interior wall at Gonzaga Family Haven in Spokane Washington. After scanning a QR code with their phones, visitors can point their cameras at an animal in the mural, and an AR component will speak the name of that animal in Salish.

see it in action right here,
using a computer and phone

  • • view this page on a computer
  • • phone: scan the QR code below
  • • phone: open the link
  • • phone: allow camera access
  • • computer: tap one of the images above
  • • phone: aim at one of the animals