A Marine Mountain Flies Toward the Islands

A Marine Mountain Flies Toward the Islands, 2025, 18 x 24 x 1.25 inches unframed or 19.25 x 25.25 x 2 inches framed, acrylic, embroidery floss, flashe, LDPE, oil pastel on canvas  $435 unframed or$585 framedthis painting is framed to order so kindly allow additional time for framing The Story Behind the Work As beautiful as Patagonia is, it has – as with all colonized lands including where I live and work– a violent history of forced displacement. I made A Marine Mountain Flies Toward the Islands by gluing cut-out shapes of canvas over stretched canvas and then, after they were securely attached, forcibly ripping the cut-out shapes of canvas off the main support. I then painted over a majority of the distressed canvas. In an act of both further violence and faux attempts at repair, I continued to attack the canvas by stabbing it with an embroidery needle, covering the tiny slivers of canvas that remained after the canvas removal with embroidered thread.With the other pieces in the End