Darcie Bernhardt and Letitia Fraser’s paintings build on traditional portraiture. Designed as a conversation between artists — their cultural rituals, family, and memory — Family Patterns understands motifs of home as ancestral and contemporary memory-keeping. Layering cultural and domestic references specific to both artists’ lives, Bernhardt and Fraser draw upon rhythms and patterns within speech, textiles, and their own community histories to express their identities and experiences through painting. From the Northern Inuvialuit hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk and the local African Nova Scotian communities of North Preston and Beechville, Bernhardt and Fraser explore storytelling and language as an act of decolonial memory preservation, ensuring their own histories are recorded, remembered, represented, and honoured.