Torn Treaties Landscapes
Torn Treaties Landscapes began in Powhatan (Richmond, VA) and I continued this project in every location I’ve lived thereafter: Arapaho (Denver, CO), Tongva (Los Angeles, CA), Haudenosaunee (Rochester, NY), Cayuga (Ithaca, NY), and Comanche (Austin, TX).. These prints reflect fraught histories of indigenous land stewardship and colonial occupation in each region. The sets are made in one printing session and show the "sediment" of ghost prints and reiterated stencil forms. These aspects of the monoprinting process provide another link to the history of repeatedly broken agreements between Indigenous Nations and the US government.
Whether as legal agreements or the visual voice of dissent, prints have documented the violent histories of occupation which have silently marked our localities. And they can point to the possibility of reclaiming these spaces.
Above: Torn Treaties Landscapes Comanche, Lipan Apache, Coahuiltecan, Tonkawa, Jumanos
30 x 11
Monoprints
Above: Torn Treaties Landscapes Tongva, Chumash
Above: Torn Treaties Landscapes Haudenosaunee, Seneca
Above: Torn Treaties Landscapes Powhatan
(lithographs, intaglios, silkscreens, monoprints)
Above: Torn Treaties Landscapes Haudenosaunee, Seneca