Title: "Al-pumpkin"

Artist: Dawn Clearwater

Tribal Affiliation: nahua/maya

Year Completed: 2022

Medium: Digital, Signed by Artist, Unframed

Dimensions (HxWxD): 14 x 8.5 Inches

Description/Inspiration:

Squash are a very sacred crop that predates even corn, and beans. They are the oldest of the three sisters, and here I have honored them for the Autumn season along with an indigenous South American animal, the alpaca, who are very sacred tp Andean peoples, and they both are very popular and heartwarming and are a joy to look at, and I figured if non indigenous people constantly go on about these two sacred species separately, I wanted to kind of re-indigenize it away from the mainstream, and conbine their cuteness, since many tend to overlook the roots, of popular things that are indigenous to the Americas. Non-natives will even try take the credit or glory for themselves, by trying to sell these species as if they are " modern" things they discovered or invented, when in reality they are ancestral to us and timeless.

Artist Bio/Statement:

Dawn Clearwater is an afro Mesoamerican , autistic, 2spirit multi-media digital artist. They have studied the arts and crafts their entire life , it has grounded them and helps connect deeper with their heritage. Art runs in their family, and they want to do their part to carry that torch, and the torch of land, language, and cultural preservation.

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