Featured Artist: Susannah Mira

Susannah Mira put down roots in Houston in 2013 after a five-year stint of semi-nomadism doing artist residencies, relocating to the city originally for a similar 8-month opportunity at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. She’s been a member at Box 13 since December 2017.

While she’s been active in the region exhibiting her large-scale installations and sculptures of cast-off objects, she has recently also been collecting and rearranging print material as collage.

In the pieces here, enormous hands emerge from and reach into landscapes as if to seize something from the earth or to exhume an unknown discovery. The simple manipulation of scale in the images evokes the vast and complex influence that human beings have on the planet. In addition to the forces of industrialization and resource extraction, the collages represent the legacy and consequence of colonization.

Susannah made the first of these works during the protests surrounding the Dakota Access Pipeline, arguments that focused on environmental concerns as well as indigenous resistance. As a result, she credits that movement as a contributing catalyst for these creative works. If any of these images or the inspiration behind them resonates with you, prints are available for purchase with a half of all proceeds going to the Apache Stronghold and their ongoing struggle against copper mining at Oak Flat. The annual march is in the first week of February this year.

Susannah’s website: susannahmira.com/

Link to prints:
https://society6.com/collageworld

More information on Oak Flat can be found at the following links:
ediblebajaarizona.com/whats-stake-oak-flat
https://truthout.org/articles/the-apache-way-the-march-to-oak-flat/
http://apache-stronghold.com/
https://vimeo.com/120753081

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