How will our Ancestors find us?: Landed Sky

This March, Tiger Strikes Asteroid (TSA) is proud to present How will our Ancestors find us?: Landed Sky , a solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist and Senior Hand Embroiderer Duwenavue Sante Johnson. Through an immersive blend of installation landscapes, seasonal paintings, and intricate hand embroidery, Johnson launches an expansive inquiry into the "past future"—a realm where historical aspirations and future legacies converge in the mind of the present. Landed Sky explores the inherent human desire for velocity and the transformative nature of flight. Recontextualizing travel as a timeless odyssey, Johnson uses industrially manufactured materials—paper, milled cotton, and found objects—to create a rich, layered vision of what remains to be discovered. The exhibition serves as a meditative "timespace," inviting viewers to step into abstract expressionist colorfields that bridge the horizon line between day and night. For Johnson, a master of the needle trade, the artistic process is inseparable from the act of survival. "The process of mending a textile is identical to the process of mending a life," says Johnson. Her work collapses the distance between vocational expertise and communal storytelling, turning the technical precision of the stitch into a vehicle for social cohesion within a space of her own creation. This exhibition marks a critical moment in Johnson's mission to institutionalize the "mended narrative." Following the acquisition of her work by the Victoria and Albert Museum, Landed Sky continues her exploration of agency and reclamation. By layering threads of history with speculative futures, Johnson asks a vital question for our time: In the vastness of the unknown, how will our ancestors recognize the marks we leave behind?