I’ll find you in every lifetime (romantic) (threat) explores queerness and intersexuality found in nature. Mating leopard slugs, alike other gastropods, embody both penetrative and receptive genital counterparts chosen at whim during courtship. The slugs hang from a tree upside down, winding into one another weightlessly, merging bioluminescent penises. The subject purports that much of nature is dimorphic, both biologically and genomically expansive, resisting the current moment in history that actively challenges free gender expression. I’ll find you in every lifetime is a digital painting and hand drawn 28 frame animation using the program Procreate.

ABOUT THE ARTIST Amanda Amour Lynx is a Two Spirit, neurodivergent urban L’nu-Scottish-French interdisciplinary artist and facilitator currently living in Guelph, Ontario and member of Wagmatcook FN. Their art combines traditional l’nu’k approaches, contemporary painting with new media and digital arts guided by Mi’kmaq cosmology, star stories, ecological knowledges, gender identity and language resurgence. Amour-Lynx’s recent projects include Manufactured Ecosystems (2025), a trans-disciplinary international project that explores the potential for nature-based knowledge, techno-knowledge, and imagined knowledge to forecast the future of climate adaptation, Spark Indigenous (2023), a collaboration with Meta and Slow Studies Creative, an augmented reality creator accelerator that amplifies Indigenous cultural expression and storytelling through using emerging technology and AR. 2S Digital Constellations (2023, ImagineNative Festival, Inter/Access) a short project incubator and virtual reality exhibit highlighting emerging two spirit textile-based artists using new media. Virtual Beginner Two Spirit Regalia Making Skills (2021-2023) with Indigenous Youth Roots, a program for Indigiqueer, two spirit and LGBT+ youth, that provides access to regalia making workshops, genderfluid ceremonial teachings, pow wow culture rooted in peer-led community and cultural practices.