Interwoven Legacies

STATEMENT

Interwoven Legacies is an ongoing series that discusses what it means to be a contemporary indigenous artist as well as an artist with intersecting identities. Silver Gelatin prints and Ambrotypes speak to the historical use of photography by colonialists to depict the romanticized notion of the “disappearing Indian,” while pigment prints bring a contemporary component to the process of making, which has historically been and continues to be an important aspect to indigenous art practices. My lens reflects my own identity as a Jewish, indigenous Peruvian American Woman through self portraiture. The still lifes comes out of an ancient belief that objects could be sacred extension of ones. This body of work seeks to add an alternative indigenous aspect to colonial stereotypes depicted throughout history.

There is no one way to represent indigenous people.

We are not disappearing.

We persist.