The Mothers
Oil on canvas
40 x 36
Geneticists estimate that all Native Americans living today – North, Central, and South – descend from six shared mothers who lived from 50,000 to 10,000 years ago.
In this painting, they are no longer here, but they’ve left a presence. The place where their wombs would be is represented by the universal Native American symbol for the sun, a coiled line signifying the continuity of life provided by it. The mothers’ DNA files scroll across the bottom of the painting.
Source: New Mexico, A History by J. Sanchez, R. Spude & A. Gomez
40 x 36
Geneticists estimate that all Native Americans living today – North, Central, and South – descend from six shared mothers who lived from 50,000 to 10,000 years ago.
In this painting, they are no longer here, but they’ve left a presence. The place where their wombs would be is represented by the universal Native American symbol for the sun, a coiled line signifying the continuity of life provided by it. The mothers’ DNA files scroll across the bottom of the painting.
Source: New Mexico, A History by J. Sanchez, R. Spude & A. Gomez