by Dawn Patel | Mar 1, 2022 | art as initiation, How it Appears
There is a lot going on right now and it is easy to become overwhelmed. And at those times, it is very easy to desire something to grasp. A rule. A constant. Safe and Secure. And what a lot of people seem to be missing is that desire to find a constant, a rule has...
by Dawn Patel | Apr 26, 2020 | How it Appears
The Cloak is a work that began in Mexico in 2018, and exists in a state of flux. I began with the question of the body. When the truth of a colonial history is written by the colonizer, what happens to the body of the colonized? The Cloak is tattered and chaotic,...
by Dawn Patel | Apr 26, 2020 | visionary painting
We Are Kin came first in a vision of a hybrid figure. With the head of a coyote , a woman’s body and an owl rising from its head, this being cradles a newborn baby in its lap. I asked her, “Who are you?” and she answered, “I am your kin.” The veils are almost...
by Dawn Patel | Apr 26, 2020 | How it Appears
We Always Find a Way In is the imaginative picturing of the present that has emerged from a dream and two visions. In the dream I was awoken from a deep sleep by noises in my basement. When I went down to investigate I found dozens of humbly clad people living in...
by Dawn Patel | Apr 26, 2020 | How it Appears
Time and Reality began with a vivid dream in which my grandson Jax was suffocated by a sheet of plastic. The question that arose, in my horror and panic over the situation was, “How can I bring him back?” The answer came with the breath of resuscitation and the...
