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 Nibi – my cup is full, please take a sip is an image of two Indigenous women wearing long skirts, sitting atop the Bannock Point Petroforms in Whiteshell Provincial Park.

The dotted red line along the image represents a line of beads, which are in the shape of the Assiniboine River in Brandon, Manitoba. Jannuska chose to depict the Assiniboine River because it is the raw water source for Brandon, her hometown. The saying, “my cup is full, please take a sip,” is a play on the proverbial “cup half full/half empty” phrase. It relates to water rights and Indigenous women rights.

The artist is particularly interested in creating MMIW awareness and making clean water available to everyone especially in Indigenous communities with drinking water advisories in effect. The saying also has to do with the passing on of kindness from one woman to the next.

This work was made while the artist attended the 2019 Nibi Gathering at the Whiteshell Provincial Park.