RED SPRINGS: Paintings
Silvia Perea,
LUMART Magazine, spring 2024 PDF
Provisional Artist statement: paintings in the wake of a family album of photographs from An "Indian school" in 1906: Photographs my Grandfather shot where HE and my Great grandparents were invited to teach, and later that year, fired. with respect to my ancestors' participation in the assimilation project of settler ideology, ThEir photographic record offers a prompt to perform for the gaze of the people in these images, these witnesses, as their spirits are, I hope, respected and entertained with manga-like, baroque-inflected Compositions, through collage, drawing, and painting. Decolonizing Riffs on my own European-inflected imaginary, yet, as an uninvited guests on these lands, a stranger on multiple registers, I suspect that Archival authority Can be undermined by vulnerable processes, including Fabulation and The liberation of fragment as wild. details read, Sometimes, as photograph, on closer look, as paint. human, geologic, and Bio-mythic scales, TELLURIC CREATURES, or Haunts of the Same?
Work in progress 2023-24.