White Rabbit on the Road to Baguio
Two-Dimensional Wall Art > Paintings (Acrylic)
42 x 53 x 1.5
$4,500.00
Artist Statement
On a road stop along the steep mountain pass to Baguio City in the 1950s I ask for candy from an unwilling Ifugao girl. The classic White Rabbit candy from China crosses generations and cultures, still popular in the 21st century, floats with the ancient bronze amulet of the Ifugao in the visual stream of this childhood encounter. The two children stand in a field of phyllotaxis algorithmic patterns that embody the life systems that sustain us. This painting is a moment of innocence steeped in Philippine and US colonial history. My work encompasses memory, culture, politics and the natural environment mixing abstraction, figuration and symbol and some humor in this visual narrative.
Artwork #
169
Contact Information
johannapoethig@gmail.com
