the colors are off in this preview. i had a weird issue with the color profiles of a printing service i was using. turns out, the profiles i was instructed to download weren't calibrated and effed a bunch of my prints. but! the final versions on display at my class show turned out pretty awesome (44x30 matte inkjet prints). expect the final images on my website sometime in january!
i also made a giant faux fur coyote rug in the shape of california (about 100 inches long, 80 inches wide) and some mini pamphlets full of the stories i collected from the internet. here are some excerpts:
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the reason why i chose coyote is the play on words. yes, we have coyote the animal (also coyote the trickster from mythology) and we have coyote, the name for individuals who take advantage of immigrants trying to cross the US-Mexico border. i was inspired by this ridiculous map i found on the los angeles/california wildlife and game website. it was an entire map of california that tracked coyote territory, except the entire map was filled in (basically, all of california is coyote territory... what a useless map, right?). california is indeed coyote territory, a homeland we constantly encroach on by building suburbs in wildlife areas. this too symbolizes the historic relationship we have with mexico: this land was originally mexican (originally native), but we took over. now immigrants who want to come here for a better life will even put their lives in danger to be here. those who do come here are the backbone of l.a.; the foundation of the hollywood landscape.
coyote is a native yet seen as a pest; coyote is borderless and yet caught up in borders.
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