by Dawn Patel | Apr 10, 2022 | How it Appears
Here I am, bursting out of this body. The mind wonders, “How can I survive this?” Meanwhile Nature expands with me.
by Dawn Patel | Mar 19, 2022 | How it Appears
The Artist Saves Her Skin – originally written 2017, but it feels relevant this year. you may have to hide under a table, with your eyes wide open a madman is turning your family into skeletons you try to warn them, your loved ones you tell them not to trust...
by Dawn Patel | Mar 3, 2022 | allegorical painting, art as initiation, art is free, How it Appears
The world is falling into step. Forging a heavy path of absolutism. Created by polar opposites. Torches held high. Lighting fault lines around the Earth. I wait, with the others. Our flames burn brightly inside. In exile with Nature. She is patient, not idle. She...
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 | 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...
