Spark Kaspar

Spark Kaspar is a reconnecting Western Shoshone and white person raised in the Pacific Northwest. They are in love with fire, water, dancing, singing, laughing, these lands, and our more than human relations. Spark strives to live a life enjoying, protecting, and defending all these loves, amongst others.

  • 2025 A.M.P. Residency Artists
Spark image: Aquamarine light descends from the top of the photo and streams through smoke and leaves in a thick deciduous forest. The green leaves pop through the opacity of the smoke to varying degrees- here a relief sculpture of trunks, there a verdant silhouette, there a mottled decomposition of woodland detritus: brown, golden, and green. At the forest’s most turquoise, to the far right, Spark is captured mid-movement, right knee bent, looking at the photographer briefly through their goggles as they bite their bottom lip. They are dressed head to toe in protective yellow and black firefighter gear, and they hold a rake-like controlled burn tool in both gloved hands. Photo by Roni Jo Draper (Yurok).
ID: Spark image: Aquamarine light descends from the top of the photo and streams through smoke and leaves in a thick deciduous forest. The green leaves pop through the opacity of the smoke to varying degrees- here a relief sculpture of trunks, there a verdant silhouette, there a mottled decomposition of woodland detritus: brown, golden, and green. At the forest’s most turquoise, to the far right, Spark is captured mid-movement, right knee bent, looking at the photographer briefly through their goggles as they bite their bottom lip. They are dressed head to toe in protective yellow and black firefighter gear, and they hold a rake-like controlled burn tool in both gloved hands. Photo by Roni Jo Draper (Yurok).