I created this print during a residency at The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, where master printer Julia Damario guided my exploration of copper plate intaglio as a new language for the movements and patterns I develop in my paintings. Through experimentation with different techniques, I discovered the fluid possibilities of white ground for creating gestural movement and tonal depth, followed by hardground etching to inscribe the geometric patterns that anchor my work. But this residency also called for something beyond aesthetic exploration—a deliberate act of witness. Using drypoint to scratch directly into copper, I rendered the C'waam, the sacred and critically endangered sucker fish that once sustained the Klamath people and remain central to our annual Return of the C'waam ceremony. These fish, caught by the thousands in Klamath Lake, were not simply food but the foundation of our way of life. Our oral tradition teaches that if the C'waam die, we as a people die as well—a prophecy that feels increasingly urgent as their numbers dwindle. The health of our people has suffered alongside the decline of these fish, victims of agricultural practices that treat our homeland as commodity rather than sacred trust. Cattle permitted to trample riverbanks and degrade water quality represent more than environmental damage—they embody the systematic disregard for our cultural traditions and senior water rights as stewards of this land since time immemorial. Creating this plate was an act of advocacy as much as art, pressing the image of C'waam into permanence to spark the conversations that their survival—and ours—depends upon.