"Naturalized Migrations"
To All My Relations: With this piece I honor the sacred medicines that allow us to clear our smokey mirrors, the natural migrations and our responsibility to provide a healthy environment for our children.
She is a siwatpiltzin,
Pipil child of the Izalcos,
Carrying with her "la fuerza de las alas de papalotl' (strength of butterfly wings)
To the north, under the same sun,
we dance, we roam, we sing
the songs of our ancestors,
defending what little is left,
and learn to love again.
She represents the migration of people from the south to the north;
the natural migratory land of Tatanka, the Buffalo nation. With this painting I would like to express my gratitude and respect first and foremost to Mother Earth who has unconditional love and provides for all our physical and spiritual needs, express gratitude to our four legged relatives, winged ones who remind us the true nature of migration, and all two leggeds who have been displaced, escaping wars on our traditional subsistence, violence and unlivable conditions. With their existence and struggles (i.e: struggle to roam free) remind us how irrational and careless some humans have been to Earth and to each other, creating borders, disrupting families, manufacturing survival. My prayer with this piece is that we use our time on this walking existence to restore balance. So much is on the line... Noxtin Nomekayotzin, to All My Relations. - Alicia
"Origins, Exodus, Wings and Hoofs" Acrylic on canvas,
Private Collection of Professor Raul Hinojosa,
Venice Beach CA.
She is a siwatpiltzin,
Pipil child of the Izalcos,
Carrying with her "la fuerza de las alas de papalotl' (strength of butterfly wings)
To the north, under the same sun,
we dance, we roam, we sing
the songs of our ancestors,
defending what little is left,
and learn to love again.
She represents the migration of people from the south to the north;
the natural migratory land of Tatanka, the Buffalo nation. With this painting I would like to express my gratitude and respect first and foremost to Mother Earth who has unconditional love and provides for all our physical and spiritual needs, express gratitude to our four legged relatives, winged ones who remind us the true nature of migration, and all two leggeds who have been displaced, escaping wars on our traditional subsistence, violence and unlivable conditions. With their existence and struggles (i.e: struggle to roam free) remind us how irrational and careless some humans have been to Earth and to each other, creating borders, disrupting families, manufacturing survival. My prayer with this piece is that we use our time on this walking existence to restore balance. So much is on the line... Noxtin Nomekayotzin, to All My Relations. - Alicia
"Origins, Exodus, Wings and Hoofs" Acrylic on canvas,
Private Collection of Professor Raul Hinojosa,
Venice Beach CA.
