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.
These pieces will be at The Center Gallery, Truth or Consequences, for their 3rd annual Phonetography show! Opening on September 14th and running through the month.
Your Garden Willing to DieApricot Tree at DuskUntitled
A Rolleiflex print of mine is currently featured at Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park in Hamilton, Ohio, as part of their FotoFocus series.
A juried open call show featuring local, national, and international photographers, Stories of the Land invites us to consider the land’s complexities, both the beautiful and the incomprehensible. Using many different approaches, the artists in this show contemplate humanity’s deep relationship with nature and their own place within it, capturing moments full of mystery and a longing to understand the world around us.
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).
The new poems are installed in the fairy houses! Written by Lindsey Warren. These recycled art pieces are available to be seen during business hours on the dog walk at Santa Fe Skies RV Park, 14 Brown Castle Ranch, Santa Fe, NM.
“Vibrance” is a conlang, or artlang (a constructed language) working in the tradition of Tolkien and other conlang enthusiasts. Translate English text into Vibrance, a fully color-based language, by typing in a word on the website and hitting the submit button! Also included is “The Color Manifesto,” which speaks to the nature of color and its relationship to culture.
Collaborators:
John Brown, computer programmer
Tim Brown, fabricator
The Currents festival runs from June 14th-June 23rd.
These two pieces will be shown at the Santa Fe Public Library, Main branch, from May-June. It’s an all ages show based on their reading selections this year (“Circe” by Madeline Miller), and the themes include Greek Mythology and Female Empowerment.