by Dawn Patel | Apr 25, 2020 | How it Appears
I painted Adinkra in 2013, and as I am preparing text for an upcoming show I am sharing these words. Sometimes time and distance from the work helps to crystalize a better understanding of its meaning. Adinkra – Beliefs create reality. I painted Adinkra with a...
by Dawn Patel | Apr 21, 2020 | How it Appears
The Bird Without Feet (Multimedia painting, 2014) began with the contemplation of sentient living beings in the Anthropocene. I combined images of space travel and nuclear fusion diagrams from “Cosmos” with maps of the Southern US, focusing on New Orleans, with...
by Dawn Patel | Jan 10, 2020 | How it Appears
Sleepless night. The tinnitus is loud and high pitched. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee constant and even, never-ending. 9 years. At 2am I begin to meditate. It is challenging to find space between the eeeeeeeeeeee I ask the sound, the...
by Dawn Patel | Nov 24, 2019 | How it Appears
The Moat The benevolent king has left the throne A madman sits in his place The moat dries up with neglect Masses are crossing, bodies pushing mud. Stirring loose the ghosts. Who loudly shake the rusty shackles While others bow down and cover their ears Women on...
by Dawn Patel | Dec 10, 2018 | ancestor dress, ancestry cloth, art, art as initiation, art is a mirror, art process, artist, awakening, Brilliant Stranger, embodiment, non-duality, performance, women's circles
This is the Cloak I began early this year, at that time I was calling it “Cape.” I went to an artist’s residency in Mexico with the intention of making a fiber cocoon, in which to perform my embodiment process. What I ended up making was a wearable...
