My 7’ x 30’ forty-eight-piece mono print installations exist in two combined forms: a set of twenty-four primary prints accompanied by a set of twenty-four ghost prints. The primary mono prints are the first pull from the print making plate, and the ghost prints are executed from the second plate pull, which also enlist the use of varied colors of paper.
The primary mono prints are strong, bright, and bold, thus articulating the way Indigenous life develops, grows, and survives in spite of the American empire. The faint color, blurred text, and sometimes obscured image treatment of the ghost mono prints represents the United States of America’s refusal to accept Native Indigenous Nations, their history, and the brutal holocaust perpetrated on our Nations by the ruling republic.
The following four mono print installations seek to challenge and inform the republic and its citizens. This body of work, proving our aboriginal survival, can begin to be felt from the four titles: Columbus Day, Why is Immigration Dictated by Foreigners, Our Red Nations Were Always Green, and Water is Your Only Medicine.
Hock e Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Columbus Day, 2019, primary print.
Hock e Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Columbus Day, 2019, ghost print.
Hock e Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Columbus Day, 2019, primary print.
Columbus Day was created in response to research conducted from a trip to the Dominican Republic, as well as many years of empathy towards the immence destruction brought by Columbus to this indigenous hemisphere.
Hock e Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Why is Immigration Dictated by Foreigners, 2020, primary print.
Hock e Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Why is Immigration Dictated by Foreigners, 2020, ghost print.
Hock e Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Why is Immigration Dictated by Foreigners, 2020, primary print.
Why is Immigration Dictated by Foreigners comments on the tragic actions of the US republic in harming so many people and children of color. The behavior to restrict and penalize those involved in immigrating is such a paradox when one considers that all the US law makers (including the former president) are themselves foreign to Turtle Island.
Hock e Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Water is Your Only Medicine, 2020, primary print.
Hock e Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Water is Your Only Medicine, 2020, ghost print.
Hock e Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Water is Your Only Medicine, 2020, primary print.
The title Water is Your Only Medicine comes from the Standing Rock siege to protect wonderful rivers and our renewal of existence via water. As we begin as gestated children in the womb to drinking Mahpe (water) and growth of exquisite life through its daily irreplaceable support, water must remain our primary homage.
Survivance is a collaboration between the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and e-flux Architecture.
