Hannah Claus and Kaia’tanó:ron Dumoulin Bush

Executed by Kaia'tanó:ron Dumoulin Bush with assistance from Diane Roe and Mathilde Pagé.

Produced by MU in partnership with Concordia.

A panoramic mural, Teionihtiohtià:kon, conceived and designed by Hannah Claus and Kaia’tanoron Dumoulin Bush, is situated on a brick wall overlooking an Indigenous garden adjacent to the Indigenous‑designed Henry F. Hall terrace. Executed by Kaia’tanoron Dumoulin Bush with assistance from Diane Roe and Mathilde Pagé, the mural highlights narratives beneath the city’s concrete, within the waters, and on the island's mountain. 

The mural presents multiple perspectives, shifting the viewer’s experience between looking above from an aerial view, peering below the city’s surface, and immersing within the landscape itself. By guiding the eye through these varied vantage points, the work encourages connection with narratives detached from linear time and space. Shapes and shadows evoke ancestors, while some elements are launched into the hemisphere, following Sky Woman’s braid as she traverses ancestral memory and future possibility.   

The artists thank the spaces and beings that shape this territory. These include the sturgeon in Kaniatarowá:nen waters, the white pine whose branches stretch far and wide, the mountain’s medicines, and the beluga, whose tooth was found beneath Sherbrooke Street’s pavement among pottery shards, revealing what lies beneath the urban surface.   

Situated within a shared public space, Teionihtiohtià:kon invites reflection on presence, continuity, and relationship, recalling the layered histories that remain active in the landscape.

To learn more about the creation of this work, visit the project page on MU's website.