White Corn Woman Lamenting
By Grace Kennison
"This piece is part of an ongoing exploration in my research of corn as a sacred agricultural staple that sustained pre-colonial societies in the Americas for fourteen centuries. Indigenous women of these civilizations were the main proponents of the cultivation and domestication of corn, which requires human interaction and care in order to grow properly unlike other food sources of its time. This image of a white woman lamenting over the life course of corn is frowning over the contemporary misuse of the once revered food source as it appears in starches and syrups in an abundance of plastic-bottled cleaning products, junk foods, and other products manifested from capitalism and the degradation of human’s consecrated relationship to food source."
12'“ x 16" reproduction printed on fine art watercolor card stock. Image area is 11” x 15”.
By Grace Kennison
"This piece is part of an ongoing exploration in my research of corn as a sacred agricultural staple that sustained pre-colonial societies in the Americas for fourteen centuries. Indigenous women of these civilizations were the main proponents of the cultivation and domestication of corn, which requires human interaction and care in order to grow properly unlike other food sources of its time. This image of a white woman lamenting over the life course of corn is frowning over the contemporary misuse of the once revered food source as it appears in starches and syrups in an abundance of plastic-bottled cleaning products, junk foods, and other products manifested from capitalism and the degradation of human’s consecrated relationship to food source."
12'“ x 16" reproduction printed on fine art watercolor card stock. Image area is 11” x 15”.
By Grace Kennison
"This piece is part of an ongoing exploration in my research of corn as a sacred agricultural staple that sustained pre-colonial societies in the Americas for fourteen centuries. Indigenous women of these civilizations were the main proponents of the cultivation and domestication of corn, which requires human interaction and care in order to grow properly unlike other food sources of its time. This image of a white woman lamenting over the life course of corn is frowning over the contemporary misuse of the once revered food source as it appears in starches and syrups in an abundance of plastic-bottled cleaning products, junk foods, and other products manifested from capitalism and the degradation of human’s consecrated relationship to food source."
12'“ x 16" reproduction printed on fine art watercolor card stock. Image area is 11” x 15”.
