Title: "Land Back"

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:

For the Halloween season,I made a fan art of the infamous monster from " Little shop of horrors" this horror movie, unfortunately had a bleak ending where spoiler alert: the plant spreads across all stores in the USA, and they terrorize the country, here however; I reclaimed that narrative, since the visuals of NYC's , buildings being pushed over by giant plants (many of which are so large the windows, confuse and kill hundreds of bird species") a hyper- urban traumatized land , was weirdly satisfying to see, therefore, I decided to give it a more hopeful ending instead. I chose to interpret it as the mother nature reclaiming what is hers and punishing humans for their sins against one another. In the " Harley Quinn show" Poison ivy has the same plant, and in Monster High, Venus Mcflytrap seems to have one as well, in my scenario maybe one of them owns this plant, Since being plant based women, neither would be eaten , his name is "Chewy" and he is very well trained, so he exclusively eats cruel people who intentionally hurt the environment. In this picture instead asking the character " Seymour to feed him, he is asking his owner to feed him his favorite snack; colonizers. A take on the saying " eat the rich" if you will.

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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