Art Sale Announcement- Indigena: Fifth Sun 2 SOLD from the Greene County Museum!!!
Ms. Biruta Erdmann, Associate Professor Emeritus of the School of Art at East Carolina University, Greenville, NC has purchased a beautifully framed print from this edition to donate to one of the libraries of the area.
This is the second of three Solar/Corn God pieces called “Indigena: Fifth Sun.” During the December solstice, the sun is said to be reborn through the dark rift of the Milky Way. This marks the rebirth of the Solar/Corn God. The ancient history of the Southeastern woodlands is the story of these agricultural settlements of various indigenous groups, some who migrated from as far south as Mexico.
Corn agriculture was the key to feeding the heavily populated urban centers within the “southeastern ceremonial complex”, and corn was seen as the very source of life. I borrowed the “Fifth Sun” title from The Mayan Fifth Sun concept. The Maya called an era a “sun”. In the Popul Vuh, the book of Mayan creation mythology, we are entering the “fifth sun” and the creation of a new age for humans.
For more on this the Greene County Museum show click:
https://alyssahinton.com/2014/12/11/event-greene-county-museum-show/
“Indigena: Fifth Sun 2” is part of the “Awakening” series (2001 – present) of mixed media composites. This expressionistic series addresses parallel themes of Native American cultural reawakening and human kinship with the natural environment. It illustrates the organic beauty I find in the elements and invokes the concept of transformation, often using southeastern mound culture designs and concepts. The process involves the piecing together of photographic elements, with original hand-rendered art and digital editing, to create a hybrid. Likewise, the combination of organic patterns, figures, and cultural references creates a conceptual merging.
