Delicious Pies, Sweet Treats, & ART!

Stephanie is a Celtic-Canadian storyteller and comprehensive contemporary artist that is now in her third year+ of running Blueberry Pie Crumbs. With a background in the Liberal Western Arts and Indigenous Studies from TRENTU (2009-2014), she created a unique artist name from within in a decolonial stream and has been running a street style fairy-punk brand ever since- with a VERY yummy and rustic bakery concept along the way!

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Originally from Nogojiwanong near the Odenabe on Saugeen and Gidaaki, she once used a little bit of her student loan to stumble upon the cliffs of Moher after learning about on-going Colonialism, and then started off with a blog called "decolonizing the starving artist". Then, shortly after pointing out a major design flaw in sports tech at work and having the word "Katha" come to mind while writing a short story on the side for a competition, she was wished publication and became admired for her work "tackling complex structural issues" by Penguin Random House Canada while living in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal in 2019 with a manuscript called, "From the Edge of my Canadian Dock". Then, while still surviving in a current system with complex structural issues and in the scratch one day, she realized and began Blueberry Pie Crumbs while living in Mi'kma'ki down East! Then, after starting to do a little independent, routine yoga not too long after to help with the stress of the complex structural abuse (she’s never been to a yoga class), to her shock and surprise she was first visited by two NA indigenous men in a dream from another time. A year later, she was visited by an old, pre-Celtic/Celtic creation ancestor known as the Cailleach/Danu in a dark cave in a dream looking in a mirror (...and she looked like a shapeshifting, alien nature spirit with rusty, sharp teeth and the wooden, magic wand giveaway (as if these teeth represent the earth's core herself!) or what might be known as a stone age and Neolithic Mother goddess version of the canniberry face she had already drawn up)! Then, she started creating a bakery after telling a local paper at a community yard sale event back home in Ontario she wanted to- and the rest is history as they say!

Blueberry Pie Crumbs was built from and suggests an embodiment of a naturally inherited tribal and cultural legacy, and with it a cyclical, pre-Colonial, on-going Colonial, decolonial, and post-Colonial relationship to an ethnorelative, decolonial path and experience rooted in the land, and so, resurgence and reclamation of cultural identity from within, in the creative, multi-cultural, and democratic landscape…for that very practice! The Blueberry represents the Earth and is connected to historically complex lands and cultures, and the PIE crumbs represent these ingredients from in-between the crust! The Earth is constantly scavenging and recycling it’s own ingredients just like a floating, celestial bird! The PIE root for “ingredients” can mean to walk and enter, and the root for “pie” can mean a bird that collects ingredients (she didn’t know blue jays seeded oak trees before drawing her blue jay cartoon, and then had two acorns fall out of the bottom of a blue junk can right before going to draw her oak leaf cartoon years after those two dreams)! Long story short, that’s actually a vessel of communication from the land (ecological memory and chthonic law including the otherworld) that is rooted inside of a bay on the Kashagawigamog chain here on Turtle Island- structurally confirming cultural and creative identity, and as a real-time knower/seer of the oak (via a gift through her Mom that she thought she might like for her creations that was picked up on a tiny twig a few years before from this land they were both born into)! That’s the land speaking directly to and seeding the storyteller via generational, ancestral inheritance from an oak tree! Did you know druidesses revered birds as mediums and oaks as ancestors?! Did you know storytellers were also these mystics within Celtic clans? Did you know Celtic tribes had sovereignty goddesses, with, for example, the Donovan’s being Mongfind and then Cliona? Did you know that if PIE was a real language, it would have also had to be an ecological knowledge system with mythic strata? Have you ever heard oaks knock in the wind before? This isn't just perspective, this is fragments of real storytelling as a real medium, a real, PIE Celtic-Canadian storyteller rooted in Kashagawigamog/Gidaaki/the land. This isn't spirituality, myth, theory, misinformation, white women feminism, worldview, or cosplay. This is a legacy ecological memory, interconnectedness, and reality retained, epigenetics and molecular signaling, and so, discovered belonging in land via storytelling, initiation and rite of passage, decolonial, independent reasoning, and a very individual, fully historical, mystical walk weaving PIE-Celtic creation and migration mythos to a modern Canadian woman’s path with a depth of lived knowledge in a non-religious and secular framework between dreams and reality...adorning accordingly! Evidently, obligated to, and serving cultural practices (including preservation), creative infrastructure, and so, local, decolonial, economic development with her awen and something a little abstract! (...meaning the drawing of the Cailleach and the story she’s telling that goes with it!). This is the opposite of erasure! The land wasn’t going to erase this. Nobody and nothing else could tell this story, and didn’t. Yeah, nobody saw this coming!

She is the first and forever only woman in modern history to show and tell anthropomorphizing a version of a wild, old, PIE creation Grannie (Dʰéǵʰōm) out of her hat immortalized into stories of local landscapes (and now proving on her own even in Gidaaki on Turtle Island too via her work as a real storyteller of the land!) giving some of those very old stone structures a run for their money! Undisputedly, she is the first Canadian ever, storyteller rooted in the land in the world, and real PIE-Celtic storyteller of the land within this traditional territory of Michi Saagiig, Chippewa, and Algonquin Nations, to build architecture to be able to tell a story rooted in a specific land/place and lived reality confirming creative identity (and realizing this under a blue moon tied to the ending of that first manuscript too!) as chthonic law linked with real, climate resistance. That’s the land’s defense systems, and evolutionary survival needs and mechanisms, protecting and helping her to be ecologically resistant as part of it’s own (HUGE) (and also points to the land’s very own undercover, ecological interconnectedness, sacrifice, strategy, and alignment via an originating, pre-Colonial, tribal, PIE-Celtic (at least) relationship to it to get to this story)! She had to build it to see it, experience it, decolonize, and take her power back with the land! Did you know the ancestor for blueberries and oaks originate in North America millions of years ago? In other words, unintentionally, she brought through a primordial Mother, her identity/title is the first and only to be rooted in ecological and mythic stata and on Turtle Island, and so, her work was always inherent to and rooted in relationship to Kashagawigamog, and so, real decolonization! In other words, she’s the first and only to see and lore keep the Cailleach via Blueberry Pie Crumbs via Turtle Island! It seems the druidess class might have had identities rooted in specific landscapes, and PIE/Proto-Celtic might have actually originated with a druidess tribe on Turtle Island at different times! Respectfully, the land resurged and revealed this throughout, and she’s one of the biggest creative intellectual minds in the world right now! The land can’t look after us if we do not look after it! Did you know blueberries are connected to fairies and the otherworld because like earth (and a contemporary artist) blueberries grow in wild, untamed places too? With the help of water and sunlight, plants produce the air we breathe while making and eating their own food, which is sugar…which means dessert…yum!

Indeed, sometimes you misplace your very special snacks and sometimes you find them again at exactly the right moment, and this kind of lore from the ancient times winds longer than television cartoons, and not just every day- just saying! When she’s not drawing cartoons she’s often in the lab creating all sorts of things…and of course, also has a forthcoming book on the way!