{"id":8271,"date":"2024-02-12T01:38:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T01:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/?post_type=project&p=8271"},"modified":"2024-02-12T01:38:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T01:38:22","slug":"sylvia-padilla-untitled-acrylic-on-canvas-30h-x-15w-200-00","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/?project=sylvia-padilla-untitled-acrylic-on-canvas-30h-x-15w-200-00","title":{"rendered":"Sylvia Padilla \u201cUntitled\u201d, acrylic on canvas, 30\u201dH x 15\u201dW, – $200.00"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 the sense of self became harder to identify. There was a surreality in a sense and a feeling of the world turned upside down. With new terms as the “new normal” and “essential” we all went from a place of having everyday expectations of living to suddenly not having any grounding on what self was.
\nI started to study more of my past and my heritage to get a better sense of who I am. At this time my paintings\u00a0 <\/span>incorporated Incan and Taino imagery. I also included references\u00a0 <\/span>to Pre-CoIumbian textiles and artifacts in my artwork to get a better sense of who I am and where I come from. I am a 1st generation Latina woman with roots in Ecuador and Puerto Rico.
\n\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>In this piece I am working with flat imagery on the picture plane. This work is a self portrait\u00a0 <\/span>as it describes me using pre-columbian patterns to gain knowledge of my Andean and Taino heritage. In my works I also wish to bring awareness of all those past cultures that were almost entirely destroyed during European conquest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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