Carrie Phillips Kieser is a visual artist, residing in Mi’kma’ki (prounounced mee-g-mah-gee), the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq people. The Mi’kmaq have lived in this region for over 13,000 years, and they are the founding, indigenous people of Nova Scotia. Her work reflects a peripatetic practice of gathering within the porous boundaries of spaces and places of their land. Her process is rooted in both physical and conceptual exploration, as she navigates delicate and complex ecosystems, attending to their imagined or perceived borders. Through poetic meditations, she unravels the layered relationships between humankind and nature, bridging emotional experience with intellectual understanding.

Her work weaves together themes of romantic yearning and precarious loss, revealing how we are all intimately entangled within the landscapes we inhabit. Each mark, impression, and material decision speaks to the impermanence and fragility of these interconnections, evoking both a sense of longing and an awareness of ecological precarity.

Through her practice, she cultivates a contemplative space where boundaries dissolve, inviting viewers to engage with the tensions between presence and absence, memory and materiality, permanence and flux. Whether drawn, printed, or gathered, her works serve as quiet acts of observation, devotion, and inquiry—an attempt to make visible the subtle, often overlooked entanglements that shape our world.