Dakota Mace: Sǫʼ Baa Hane’ 2023-2025

Higher Pictures presents Sǫʼ Baa Hane’, the gallery’s first exhibition with Diné artist Dakota Mace. The exhibition brings together nine works made between 2023 and 2025 from two series, Sǫʼ and Distorted Landscapes.

Mace combines traditional and cameraless photographic methods, including cyanotype, chemigram, and natural dyes such as cochineal and Osage orange, with hand-applied glass beadwork drawn from motifs in Diné weaving and silversmithing. Working across these process-intensive, labor-dense materials, she translates Diné cosmology and oral history into a visual language in which design itself functions as a carrier of narrative. In both series, land operates not as a pictorial subject but as an archive. Land is a repository of ancestral memory and kinship that, in Mace’s framing, resists the proprietary logic of Western land ownership and instead figures place as an extension of the self and a site of intergenerational continuity.