Inherited Inarticulations
Jewel Shaw. Found Bible cover, Gampi tissue paper, sinew, lithography ink and carbon paper transfer drawing. 28 x 56 in. 2020.
Home + Native Land displacement, trauma, oral histories
visual story
memory telling
identity
ancestral homelands nomadic seasonal
inherited migrations: follow the
poetry translated animal
loss of language, land, home,
traditions interpreted, transmitted walking grief
It hurts to breathe.
Barefoot. Incoherent and clumsy.
In the distance I see you, stark, bare, indistinct, carrying your traumas.
Remnants, penetrate.
Animal breath
Salivate
Sinew
Sludge
Blood
Fire.
Black bibles
White crosses
Raven heartbeats
Missing
gone