Desecration #2

2017

Diné, born 1960

“The series responds to ongoing environmental threats to traditional Diné lands and communities (including toxic pollution caused from uranium mining, coal burning, and fracking), as well as the exploitation and pollution of indigenous land around the world.” — John Feodorov

Desecration #2 is from the artist’s Desecration series, in which the artist commissions Diné wool rugs and draws on them with acrylic paint, graphite, and conté crayon. The sacred wool rug represents sovereign Diné lands, and the artist’s alteration, the continued environmental threats from governmental and private interests.

Acrylic, graphite, and conté on wool rug

50 1/4 x 44 1/4 in. (127.6 x 112.4 cm)

Ancient and Native American Art Acquisition Fund

2020.2.2

Provenance: The artist; purchased from artist by Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2020

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryLa Conner, Washington, Museum of Northwest Art, In Red Ink, July 7 - Sept. 23, 2018.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, YOU ARE ON INDIGENOUS LAND: places/displaces, Apr. 6, 2019 - June 28, 2020 [on view Apr. 6 - Dec. 2, 2019].

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Our Blue Planet: Global Visions of Water, Mar. 18 - May 30, 2022.

Seattle Art Museum respectfully acknowledges that we are on Indigenous land, the traditional territories of the Coast Salish people. We honor our ongoing connection to these communities past, present, and future.

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