Title: Memories of My Past

Artist: Jearica Fountain

Tribal Affiliation: Member of the Karuk tribe as well as Nisenan , Miwok , and Pit River

Year Completed: 2022

Medium: Digital art / Painting (print) Signed by Artist, Unframed

Dimensions (HxWxD): 24 x 20

Description/Inspiration:

I incorporated blue for its association with feelings of sadness, feeling alone, and forlorn. When seeing it, it helps invoke those feelings of uncertainty that many children felt at residential schools. I used a light blue in association with young ages of those victims of this. I used orange for its representation of the impacts of residential schools still felt today. It is an interpretive piece meant to invoke feelings.

Artist Bio/Statement:

I am an Indigenous land protector, and activist for climate action and human rights, utilizing my art to fight the impacts of colonialism. My deep connection to the lands of Turtle Island, ancestors, and Indigenous way of life guides me in everything I do, including my art. My art focuses on 'Indigenizing' and decolonizing, with the goal to break down colonialism. Art in this way brings everyday people into a moment of experience, understanding that experience is a virtue. Looking at my work puts you inside a moment to experience the happiness, the sadness, the history, the heartbreak, the trauma, and the everyday lived occurrences shared in our Indigenous experience. All of my pieces are inspired by the Indigenous way of life even with abstract pieces because pull from my perspective as an Indigenous woman to create these pieces.

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