Category: Maternal Mitochondria

Santa Fe Wind Phone

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Maternal Mitochondria has a new installation up in Santa Fe- a wind phone! There is currently some construction around the site, but it should be done in 1-2 weeks.

We are also featured on the website My Wind Phone, a global directory and resource dedicated to helping people find, create, and share Wind Phones around the world. Use their interactive map to find other wind phones!

Wind phones are an international project started in Japan (by Itaru Sasaki) as a way of processing grief. Opened to the public in 2011, after the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, wind phones allow the participants to call and have a conversation with deceased loved ones. There are now more than 500 wind phones around the world, although this is the first that we know of in New Mexico.

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).