Jeliza Patterson

smallrevolutionary:

18-15n-77-30w:

jonubian:

IN HONOR OF AFRICAN ANCESTORS AT BOTTOM OF THE ATLANTIC

Vicissitudes Underwater Sculpture - Grenada, West Indies

Artist Jason de Caires Taylor, with Johanna Fernandez , Ari Merretazon and Tina Varick, NPR article about the artists’ work.

(amazing image I snatched from my friend Llanor’s fb page.)

http://18-15n-77-30w.tumblr.com/

i teared up. this is amazing. and poignant. and…. tears. my emotions. jesus. my people.

(via karnythia)

cavetocanvas:

Ana Mendieta, Silueta Works in Mexico, 1973-77

From The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles:

Ana Mendieta was born into a politically prominent family in Cuba closely affiliated with the Communist movement led by Fidel Castro. When the alliance between Castro’s factions and Mendieta’s father turned sour in 1961, she was sent to live in the United States. Her exile informed the development of her ensuing work; she did not identify with a particular homeland and adopted various sites for her performances and their documentation. The untitled works that comprise the Silueta series, which she preformed as she traveled between Iowa and Mexico, reveal her interest in the earth as a site to address issues of displacement by recording the presence of her body—or the imprint it left behind—within different natural environments. Mendieta often filled in the silhouette of her body on the earth with various materials such as rocks, twigs, and flowers, as well as blood and gunpowder.

Andy Goldsworth, leaves flower petals on rock.

(eta: thanks to crookedceremonies for catching that)