Artist: Danielle SeeWalker (Colorado, USA)
Background on the piece:
https://coloradosun.com/2024/05/10/danielle-seewalker-artist-residency-gaza-vail/
The town reached out to SeeWalker to offer the Lakota painter and muralist a studio and stipend, but reversed after residents complained about a painting referencing Gaza was posted to her Instagram
Vail is a ski resort town in the mountains in the US.
Sorry if this is too political for this community. I will move it elsewhere if asked.
I love how it both explicitly and implicitly conveys the sense of Palestinians being silenced with the way she chose to portray the face. Also makes the eye and all that it conveys that much more haunting
The linked news story about how the artist was cut off from public funding has this:
SeeWalker said she painted “G is for Genocide” in recognition of the parallels between the plight of Native Americans in the U.S. and the crisis in Gaza.
“It’s about erasing a culture, about taking land. Me as an Indigenous person, this is what happened to my ancestors,” SeeWalker said. “The piece is not about taking sides, it’s about humanity, it’s about not destroying a culture and letting people live.”
Go get some! ✊
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