Description: For thousands of years corn, beans and squash have been staple foods to the Indigenous people of the Americas. Corn, as the agricultural backbone, is equated with life itself. “Red Corn Mother” shows the corn icon rooted in, and growing up from, an underground Corn Mother who gives of herself to nourish the roots of a red corn plant. She is the North American equivalent of the Aztec “Goddess of Sustenance” Tonantzin, who, through Spanish domination, transmuted into the present-day Catholic influenced Lady of Guadeloupe.
Original Dimensions: 24x26x2″
Original Medium: Mixed media assemblage using found wood, acrylic, block print, found imagery, wire, photos and cutouts of recycled digitally edited passages.
Print Format: variable media
Print Dimensions: multiple sizes