Saturday, March 2, 2024

a wet day conferencing


A very wet day at the Huntington - we splashed over from the conference room to the American Art Gallery to see photographs by Mercedes Dorame and Cara Romero - both of them indigenous artists - in the sprawling Borderlands show.  This big bird - and some avian friends - turn out to be part of the show, too (they're migratory), and are by my USC colleague Enrique Celaya - though I've only found that out just now when checking on Mercedes' second name ...  Cara Romero spoke really interestingly in the conference itself about her practice: a member of the Chemehuevi tribe (much of whose ancestral lands are beneath Lake Havasu), she lives both in the Mojave and in Santa Fe - which explains why one of the images she showed was disconcertingly familiar to me: a print used to hang in the hair salon I went to there pre-pandemic ...


The grounds were looking good, too.  There are, I promise, mountains behind here.


 

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