Murray’s work Chi Fii Embraces the Old Ones occupies the gallery as a photographic installation. The wall-height photographs depict two hammer stones wrapped in beaded daisy chains, one resting atop fur. In Cree and other epistemologies, stones are grandfathers. Here, too, we witness the artist as a daisy chain, in this instance, wrapped around a loved one. The large scale of the work ensures an overt presence of the sculptures depicted, but in removing the rocks, beads, and fur from the room, Murray protects these materials/beings from the potential of harm they might encounter in the gallery space. Nearly monumental, Chi Fii Embraces the Old Ones is also, paradoxically, deeply personal, a collaboration across generations. In this instance, the use of photography protects the objects and materials that were lovingly created by the artist in connection and collaboration with the ancestral lines that inhabit her body. - excerpt from Emily Dundas Oke’s curatorial text for Dream Marrow, Burnaby Art Gallery, Nov 10, 2022 - Jan 22, 2023