Red on Red: Ode to Gramsci

2017

Ink on fabric (banners)

Dimensions: 48 x 60 inches

This series of work was inspired by the language and ideas of Antonio! Within political structures of autonomy and resistance, the works play with Gramsci's words and ideas. I have twisted the structure and form of the words, but not the foundation. His intentions reside with- in the visual in this series of text-based works. In consideration of the proletariat, the working class and the workers body these works reveal critical political implications of language use, ideas and visual culture. In an attempt take a political theory or statement and transform ideas into the visual realm - is the base of this work. The red on red, suggests I am following the red thread back, but in my case, as a Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux women, I am following both the red thread and the red sinew. I am suggesting that indigenous knowledges, which are shaped by the collective and commons, run parallel to Gramscian ideas.