June 4 - July 24, 2022
From Artes de la Rosa Cultural Center:
“Carol Hayman is presenting her work in the exhibition Shadowlands, in one of the galleries of the Artes de la Rosa Cultural Center. This art center is part of a non-profit organization which includes 2 art galleries and the lovely historic gem, Rose Marine Theater, home of the Hispanic theater company Teatro de la Rosa. Located in the Stockyards neighborhood of Ft. Worth’s Northside, it is dedicated to being the center for Latino art and culture in Ft. Worth.
These works are monochrome intaglio prints, from original photographs by the artist. The exhibition is part of an extended series of prints depicting themes which deal with mythology and myth-making attached to objects and locations from urban legends to Native-American and Aboriginal story-telling, with Greek, Roman, Japanese, and Norse mythology, heroes, sheroes, and super-heroes, in comic books, sci-fi tales, and ghost stories told around a campfire. They give homage to indigenous ways of knowing through stylized, semi-abstracted figurations depicting a potential narrative sequence. Shadows of myths allude to creation stories. The work suggests daydreams in a dreamworld of cosmic nature, evoking notions of disappearance, deconstruction, and self-effacement. These images are a gesture to a significant world beyond what we see in front of us.
The shadows in the landscapes hint at a backstory the viewer can imagine, which makes us remember stories our ancestors told us, or we read in a book of mythology, or saw in a dreamworld. These images are a gesture to a significant world beyond what we see in front of us. They engage people with the land. The allegories help us question our relation to the land, question our role in ensuring the preservation of wild places and cultural patrimony, and question our effort to address the effects of climate change and global warming. They remind us we are here just a short while and many people have come and gone before us over thousands of years. We are part of a network of enduring life forms and the world is a better place if we understand each other and bring ourselves into balance with the land around us. This is hard to do, but we can start with stories of our origins. What we do while we are here matters.
Earth Mother filled the earth with stones, watered by springs, that became humans, animals, and plants, which humans have the duty to nurture and maintain. She guards the pathway to the underworld and is powerful, mysterious, and dangerous. She requires the offering of something personal from visitors to the place for finding directions, an ancient spiritual ground. She demands a sacrifice to enter. She waters the earth with her tears. Her tears will restore the ecological balance from the destruction wrought by the modern age. When given the opportunity, we must respect her, give her offerings, ask her forgiveness, commit to the rematriation of the land. We are part of a network of enduring life forms and the world is a better place if we understand each other and bring ourselves into balance with the land around us, difficult, but we can start with stories of our origins. “
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