Category: feminism

Zoom Reading

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From Miriam- Very exciting! Join me and Isabel in our conversation on zoom.
SFCC Library presents “Spirit of Collaboration: Using Images and Words to Create Stories of Mothers and Daughters,” a free online presentation from 5 to 6 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 22. Presentation features work by Miriam Sagan and Isabel Winson-Sagan.Register at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Sagan2026
They will share about their new book, “Fables from the Flower World”. They will give a short reading, a slide show, and talk about how they worked together. They will also offer a glimpse of their Maternal Mitochondria project, “A Wind Phone off of Route 14”.
Registrants will receive a Zoom link via email the morning of the event. Participants should note that the starting time is 5 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time (MDT).
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Maybe we’ll even reveal our secrets of working together!

The Last Breath: Death & Contemporary Art

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Maternal Mitochondria will be showing new work at this show with Womenswork.art in Poughkeepsie. It is a vulnerable series, where I photographed my mother in a New Mexican slot canyon (a la Laura Aguilar) after her cancer diagnosis.

Interview With My Mother 3

Art & Activism

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Maternal Mitochondria will have a piece in the show “Art & Activism” with Axle Contemporary in Santa Fe.

OPENING: in Railyard Shade Structure by Farmers Market, Santa Fe, NM July 5 5pm-7pm. Exhibition continues through August 18.

Responding to the prompt “Rage,” Maternal Mitochondria took posts and tweets from the internet which inspired a pure and visceral rage in the artists. These quotes have been rearranged and placed in the context of female personifications of death. The three incarnations aren’t exactly vengeful Furies, but are related. Visually they are threatening, and even protective. They are also a reminder about how no life is exempt from death, not even patriarchal or woman-hating dominance can supersede death. It is the great leveler of humanity. Taken in context with the text, Mictecacihuatl, Santa Muerte, and Death in Her Cart seem to express rage but also the power of nature, which is often identified as female. 
 
From left to right: Mictecacihuatl, Aztecan Goddess of the dead, Santa Muerte in Mexico, and Death in Her Cart from New Mexico (both are considered to be depictions of Doña Sebastiana).