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About Me

At least a fourth generation Texan, sired by a Canadian. I grew up in Texas, Louisiana and B. C. A creative autist and a grandfather of Welsh, Irish, German, Swedish and Texas Cherokee ancestry. My eldest son adds Chinese to our DNA and my younger son adds Filipino. I write because a blank sheet of paper has always been for me a space between cause and effect where dignity abides. I make physical and visual art when Spirit moves me. ARTEMISIA is the current home of my work. Walking many roads and sharing my medicine, I currently reside in Lillooet. It brings me joy to see i ts7ása úcwalmicw and skelkékla7 (young and old) dancing into post-Colonial reality with an enduring dignity and inherent grace. To all my relations: It is an honour to live among you in this powerful and magical place.

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Long-haired Texas boy
Battle of the Neches Marker
Vancouver Letter Carrier
Battle of the Neches Info
Battle of the Neches site
Cherokee Chief Bowles Memorial
Texas Cherokee Associated Bands
Chief Wilma Mankiller
Deputy Chief Curtis Watson
Rolling Thunder Cherokee Medicine Man
Cherokee Trail of Tears
Man playing guitar
Father and Son
Baby Girl
Two Vikings

MICHAEL HAWES IS PROUD TO ROLL WITH 

Start Where You Are

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God abide this gentle tide
thy ruined ledger mend
prithee heft thine avowéd birk
and bestow a safer Zen

SINCE 2003

glowing tree trunks
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