Gouache on paper
There exists across cultures a similar linguistic origin myth.
This story tells of humanity, through a project of hubris, attempting to build a tower that reaches the sky and thus the heavens. In many of these stories this tower is then destroyed. The people that had built it are punished for their work and scattered across the lands, divided by an inability to understand each other’s speech. This folkloric explanation for our diversity of languages is fascinating in it’s prevalence; these stories go back as far as the 1400 BC to the biblical Tower of Babel and even to the 21st Century BC and the Sumerian story of Enmerkear and the Lord of Aratta and spread across cultures separated by great distances in both time and location – from Sumerian and Toltec to Native American and Nepalese.
And, as fiction becomes reality, much like the mythical tower builders, in the late 13th century in Northern France, there began a race to build the tallest cathedral. From 1569-1573 the tallest structure in the world was the 153-meter (nearly 40-story) tower of Beauvais cathedral. After more than 300 years of construction, the tower collapsed, having stood for just 4 years. .
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#home #paintingsofhome #oilpainting #oilonpanel #williamsburgoils #pthalo #indianyellow #femaleartists #tinyhouses #sketch #konst #art #kunst #oilpainting #figurativeart #portraitsofbuildings #portraitpainting
#bushwick #painting #paintanyway #agnesmartin #workinprogress #nyaa #newyorkcity #architecturalpainting #colorfield #colorfieldpainting #contemporaryart #collect
#skulpturipilane #pilane #tjörn
#skulpturipilane #pilane #tjörn
I’m a bit ashamed to say that I find these maps beautiful. These are redlining maps taken from the national archive. They tell the story of how American housing policy created economic inequality in America. They tell the story of how income inequality can be drawn by a government along racial lines. If we are to believe Richard Rothstein in ‘The Color of Law’ they tell the story of how the fact that median white American families have 12x more wealth than their black counterparts can be directly attributed to American governmental housing policy. They tell the story of racism in America.
I grew up knowing what racism looked like on an individual level. It wasn’t until I had grown up that I understood, the perceptions driving racism were caused by institutionalized racist policy. #juneteenth #richardrothstein #redlining #tulsaracemassacre #homematters #thisisamerica
Virtual exhibition open now. Take a walk through. Link in bio.
Delighted to have my painting
A Study For Home #2, 2019
gouache and graphite on cotton paper
8 x 6 inches
selected for inclusion in this summer’s exhibition. A big thank you to jurors
Andrea Scott, Arts editor at @thenewyorker
Alia Williams @aliajessenia of @jeffreydeitchgallery and Jenna Bellardo-Samuels @joeonna of @jackshainman
Will share further details when the exhibition is live. .
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#jeffreydeitch #jackshaiman #thenewyorker #NYAA #joeonnabelloradosamuels #aliawilliams #home #gouacheonpaper #gouache #art #konst #painting #sketch #andreascott #jeonna #astudyforhome #jackshainmangallery @newyorkacademyofart
Don’t miss the newest issue of Parse edited by Kristina Hagström-Ståhl particularly haunting and thoughtful writing by Nina Mangalanayagam “Identity is constructed from memory, fantasy, narrative, myth and experience.” Parse Issue 11 Summer 2020 Intersections
Congrats on impressive work to @stinaottolina and @ninamanga
#parse #valand #colonialism #hybridity
Sitting by the Window Looking Out
Oil on Linen, 2020
Nationalism casts a pall of fear over our imagery of home. Do our rural domestic settings once seen as connoting hard work, simplicity, and honesty now appear as facade to a culture of fear?
#painting #art #konst #nyaa #artsinbushwick #oilonlinen #tinyhouses #oilsketch #portraitsofhome #lillabommen #azadehezaghi
But How do We Get There From Here?
Oil on Linen, 2020
As the world becomes more global, in some, a desire to protect, to insulate, grows. We institute policies to safeguard an idea of homeland and our intimate spaces of domesticity. Troublingly, we judge who we allow in and who we exclude as potentially dangerous to our physical safety or our ways of life. We watch as natural disasters, political turmoil, and war destroy or make people’s homes and homelands unlivable and, for many, fear overpowers empathy. At the same time, we watch children at borders living in cages, asylum seekers detained in camps, and families evicted. These visions change our relationships to our own homes, rendering once stable associations suddenly vulnerable, ephemeral, privileged.
#exhibition #architecture #art #home #portraitpainting #oilonlinen #painting #oilpainting #paintanyway #lillabommen
Melancholy as I take down the exhibition, ‘Reaching for the Heavens, Losing the Earth’ with @azadehzaghi Looking forward to many more fantastic collaborations!
#oilsketch #oilpainting #oilpaint #art #paint #paintingsofbuildings #architecturalart #architectureart
Melancholy as I take down the exhibition, ‘Reaching for the Heavens, Losing the Earth’ with @azadehzaghi Looking forward to many more fantastic collaborations!
#oilsketch #oilpainting #oilpaint #womenartist #paint #paintingsofbuildings #architecturalart #architectureart
‘The preschool is a social and cultural meeting place that should promote children’s understanding of the value of diversity.’ Sweden’s preschool curriculum.
I was blown away when I read through this document. This is only a small section of a larger document setting goals and priorities for daycare.
Systematic change, through quality education.
The teaching of value in diversity.
The teaching of compassion.
Imagine a society built on this. ‘Education should give children the opportunity to develop their ability to express empathy and consideration for others by encouraging and strengthening their compassion for and insight into the situation of other people. Education should be characterised by openness and respect for differences in people’s perceptions and ways of life. It should give children the opportunity to reflect on and share their thoughts about life-related issues in different ways.
The increasing internationalisation of Swedish society places high demands on people’s ability to live with and understand the values that derive from cultural diversity. The preschool is a social and cultural meeting place that should promote children’s understanding of the value of diversity. Awareness of different living conditions and cultures can help to develop an ability to understand and empathise with other people’s conditions and values.Education in the preschool should lay the foundation for children’s understanding for different languages and cultures, including the languages and cultures of the national minorities.’ #diversity #valueindiversity #hope #preschoolcurriculum #thisisnotamerica
99 years ago today more than 8,000 people were made homeless and 100s were killed when a white mob, armed with weapons provided by city officials burned and looted nearly 1,500 homes and businesses in an area covering over 35 blocks of the thriving largely black Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma after a white female elevator operator screamed as a black teenager left her elevator. Most black residents of the city were arrested. The charges against the teen were dismissed.
This event was removed from the police and militia archives, partially removed from the bound records of the Tulsa Tribune. In 2012 a bill requiring this event be taught in Oklahoma high schools failed to pass the senate. It wasn’t until 2018 that the official name of the event was changed from the Tulsa Race Riot to the Tulsa Race Massacre. #wordsmatter
This is only one story in the long history of racism and inequality that has kindled today’s fires.
#tulsaracemassacre #greenwood #raceinamerica #home #homeless #oklahoma #thisisamerica
We are each born into homes that define who we become.
In America school funding is often directly tied to educational funding, so the communities that are the poorest, receive the lowest quality education (yes, studies confirm, funding = quality) and the immigrant neighborhoods with non native speakers and parents struggling to afford meals for their families, these communities that have the highest needs, receive the least money.
This is structural inequality.
This is racism / classism / nationalism in America.
This represents our inability to conceive that ensuring a collective wellbeing is good for us and ‘our’ children. It represents our implementation of policies that protect ‘our own’ under the assumption that there will never be enough to go around. That ‘our’ kids deserve more than ‘theirs’. At the same time, It is within our homes and communities we learn to think about race, gender, domestic economies, about hierarchies and power structures, long before we develop the capacity to understand those words. It is there we learn to understand what we should expect in terms of how society treats us and
how much we ‘deserve’, it’s where we first become aware of privilege, our own or others.
Home is where we learn what we have the right to expect and
what we should fear.
We grow up in America with mythical bootstraps, but in reality, can we rise higher than the foundation, the grounding, we are given through economic stability, geography, connections?
I can only hope that George Floyd’s death was not in vain. That we will not only see, but act, put out the fires and level the playing fields - Ensure that no matter which home you are born into in America you are given a proper education, a proper set of bootstraps, the notion that when ‘we’ send ‘our’ children, America’s children, out into the world we need not arm them with fear. .
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#home #georgefloyd #oilpainting #structuralinequality #fear #newyorkcity #architecturalpainting #racism #america
#toddlerportraits
And a second sketch from tonight’s class that feels much more like me. 💫 .
Delighted to have been invited to participate in a @willcottonnyc masterclass this evening. I don’t typically draw portraits and it’s been ages since I spent an hour on a pencil drawing. Enjoyed a little immersion in tips and tricks and pigments and methods. Big thanks to Will Cotton for his time and sincerity. .
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#willcotton #grisaille #portraitpainting #sketchbook #moleskin #pencildrawing #sketch #cottoncandy #masterclass #nyaa #pencilsketch #portrait
Delighted to have been invited to participate in a @willcottonnyc masterclass this evening. I don’t typically draw portraits and it’s been ages since I spent an hour on a pencil drawing. Enjoyed a little immersion in tips and tricks and pigments and methods. Big thanks to Will Cotton for his time and sincerity. .
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#willcotton #grisaille #portraitpainting #sketchbook #moleskin #pencildrawing #sketch #cottoncandy #masterclass #nyaa #pencilsketch #portrait
Always inspiring to see the work of @ezeth #evazethraeus .
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#konstepidemin #konstepideminartistsatwork #virus #ceramics
Delighted to have my painting
A Study For Home #2, 2019
gouache and graphite on cotton paper
8 x 6 inches
selected for inclusion in this summer’s exhibition. A big thank you to jurors
Andrea Scott, Art editor at @thenewyorker
Alia Williams @aliajessenia of @jeffreydeitchgallery and Jenna Bellardo-Samuels @joeonna of @jackshainman
Will share further details when the exhibition is live. .
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#jeffreydeitch #jackshaiman #thenewyorker #NYAA #joeonnabelloradosamuels #aliawilliams #home #gouacheonpaper #gouache #art #konst #painting #sketch #andreascott #jeonna #astudyforhome
Visited this new mosaic installation going up and some gorgeous old buildings. Congrats @johannatymark_ #konstepidemin #konstepideminartistsatwork @aliasdidis #siriusgatan #bersjön @didis_ac
