A NEW AMERICAN DREAM.
“We may have heard that the era of modern slavery is finished, is ‘history,’ that the genocide against tribal people and the expropriation of land held in trust by them are over and done with along with the last wagon-trains. But these claims are likeliest to come from those still benefiting from both. Such institutions and policies do not really die. they mutate. and we are living them still: they are the taproots of the economic order that has taken "democracy" as its alias. Our past is seeded in our present and is trying to become our future.” –Adrienne Rich, Arts of the Possible, 2001
A New American Dream traverses the hierarchical systems of power within the United States of America (USA). Survival and ‘success’ in the USA almost always requires assimilation into white culture, valuing patriarchy, capitalism and white supremacy. Articulated through fine art prints, video and postcards, this body of artwork serves as multimedia instigation, compassing the viewer to reflect upon injustices of today and asks them to reimagine how the world can begin and again.
Holding a queer liberatory politick with an artistic platform, I aim to disrupt our ability to lucidly categorize and separate issues (everything is connected). The artwork challenges the acceptance of patriarchy, capitalism and white supremacy by reacquainting the viewer with pervasive cultural objects and ideals which all work to uphold oppressive ideology. The artwork does not ask for equality within the dominating state of the United States of America because genuine equality is a society free of patriarchy, capitalism and white supremacy. My intent as an artist is to help viewers reflect and locate themselves within the larger network of power called the United States of America. Utilizing a queer liberatory politick, the artwork asks us to reflect upon the past and reconsider the present in order to reshape the future.
All Prints are multi-layered Gravures of Graphite Drawings on Gampi Silk Tissue Paper, Awagami Kozo Paper, and Somerset Velvet Rag Paper.
