Why have you chosen to participate in Manifest Equality?
William Faulker wrote, "To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality...is like living in Alaska and being against snow." The quote really inspired me because it is clear that many Californians are still "being against" their own grains of sand and that is what I'm hoping to alter by participating in Manifest Equality.
Describe a bit about your submission to the gallery or the creative process you are putting into it?
I work exclusively with flags and banners challenging the meaning, the interpretation, and demystifying their iconography. The California Bear Flag is my muse.
The flag assemblage I am creating for this event is titled CALIFORNIA in WONDERLAND and was inspired by Lewis Carroll's story of Alice in Wonderland. Just as Alice drank to shrink and ate cake to grow, the work offers doses of empowering tastes for all of us to try to feel their affect. These "doses" are in the form of thousands of gelatin capsules stuffed with powerful words. The whole of the piece is created from 20k colored capsules, which come together to encapsulate the term "Wonderland" from the title, which refers to a marvelous imaginary place that challenges and takes on real-life matters. I wanted to bring the message home by dropping Alice into our California landscape and surrounding her with our issues.
What else would you like to manifest?
A real-world place that one perceives to have dream-like qualities.
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We want to thank these participating artists for dedicating their time, energy and creativity to make MANIFESTEQUALITY a reality.
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