Beiwe (2021) is a multimedia prayer on paper, woven together in the depths of grief. It questions lineage, mixed identity and death. The person central to this story is wearing a burial shroud, hiding their face while leaving the heart exposed. Beiwe is one of the many names of the Sámi sun deity, often depicted as a femme/woman. In this image Beiwe’s child moves forward from pain, leaving the past where it must stay and transforming the richness of pain into fertile soil. She says, “child, it is time to stop burying yourself.” To be raised in fractured teachings, disconnected from Sápmi– the land, is a type of grief all on its own. Beiwe is a promise to stop hiding, to stop burying ancestors/self, and to know that our ancestors are always with us in the brightest and the most challenging moments. We are never truly alone.