PRAISE YOUR MOTHER / AMA A LA MAMÁ | LED Signs | 2020

This work was made in collaboration with artist Mariana Parisca, commissioned by 1708 Gallery in Richmond, VA, in partnership with the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, for the exhibition InLight 2020. We hope these signs and sentiments have the opportunity to travel to other locations and communities.

Let these words become a meditation as they resonate within your body. PRAISE YOUR MOTHER / AMA A LA MAMÁ. Please say it aloud in both English and in Spanish, and let it affect you. These phrases remind us to honor our mothers, the ancestral mothers (her mothers), the Earth’s mothers (God), the mother within you, and to celebrate all of the feminine forces that birth and nurture us. In this moment of massive patriarchal collapse and crisis, to praise your mother is to remember the beautiful potential of creation, a beauty that preexists us, as we heal into our futures.

Deja que estas palabras se convierten en meditación y que resuenen en tu cuerpo. PRAISE YOUR MOTHER/ AMA A LA MAMÁ. Dilo en voz alta en Ingles y en Español mientras te afectan. Estas frases nos recuerdan a dar honrar a nuestras mamá, la madre ancestral (y sus madres), la madre de la tierra (La Pachamama), la madre dentro de ti, y a celebrar todas las fuerzas femeninas que nos dan vida y nos crían. En este momento de crisis y colapso patriarcal masivo, apreciar y amar a la mamá es recordar la belleza de la potencia creadora, la belleza que nos preexiste, mientras nos curamos asía nuestros futuros.