Jicarilla Girl
Charcoal on paper.
51 x 72 cm (20,3”x 29”) paper size
50 x 70 cm (20"x 28") image size
 
Portrait of an Apache girl, after a photograph from 1904 by Edward S. Curtis. Part of my series of charcoal portraits of indigenous people.

This drawing is part of a series that originated in me going through my extensive archive of images that I used to draw upon for use in montages, and just picking those that drew me to draw them.

My portraits of historic American 'Indians' are for me like icons, or place holders if you will. The relevance of me drawing (re-document) them, to me is the fact that I am witnessing from a distance the perilous existence of almost all indigenous peoples in our present day.
Radically different ways of living and experiencing the world... languages and customs and traditional knowledge are under siege by encroaching alien mindsets and business interests. Inflexible, bottom line oriented industrialised civilisation comes to either push them into the margins of their ancestral lands or out of existence altogether, assimilate them by erasing their culture and smothering their shared core identity, or else forcefully relocate them in order to protect an endangered animal they have coexisted with for thousands of years.
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This original drawing has been fixed and is fairly smudge proof. It will be shipped rolled, well protected in a reinforced tube. It comes with a signed certificate of authenticity.
 
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