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Meal of Myriad Lives Painting
United States
Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Size: 48 W x 52 H x 4 D in
About The Artwork
Meal of Myriad Lives addresses the deeper understanding of the complexities of consciousness that indigenous cultures posses. Through certain rituals these indigenous people alter their states of consciousness as an attempt to figure out what they truly are outside of their physical existence. The greatest question that we ask is what happens to us when we die? Science has shown us that at the near moment before death our brain quickly releases a large amount of a chemical neurotransmitter in order to spare the brain's matter and functionality in case of survival, while shifting our level of consciousness. Our brains produce small amounts of the same chemical every night when we fall asleep and in large amounts at the moment of birth. The Shipibo Indians of the Amazon figured out how to synthesize this neurotransmitter through the combination of various local plants and roots for a ritual known as " Little Death". During the ritual, it is believed that one is separated from their body and free to explore the different non physical realms of existence that are simultaneously existing, but normally only accessible through death. Regardless of the possible interpreted implications of some sort of afterlife these explorations reveal a lot about the nature of consciousness in regards to our temporal existence.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Acrylic on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:48 W x 52 H x 4 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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United States
My work addresses the implications of cultural appropriation in relationship to the effect of colonialism on individualized culture. I explore the issue of reverse appropriation within the context of contemporary society. I begin to express these concepts through material application and within the process itself. I assign traits of a non specific indigenous culture to portraits of individuals from the 1920s to mimic the process of taking a valuable aspect of a subservient culture and re-appropriating it within a dominate culture, without consideration of its origin or meaning. The images are created from contact prints that were made using found glass plate negatives. In order to make the prints appear to be more authentic to the time period I applied the attributes of the individualized culture through the process of hand drawing them on acetate and then laying them on top of the negative before exposure, to show how things potentially could have appeared if reverse appropriation had occurred much earlier in history.
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