Evangeline Deconstructed
original painting by Heather Bird Harris
Evangeline Deconstructed 2022
wetland soil watercolors donated from Grand Chenier/Atakapa-Ishak land, foraged clay watercolors from Bonfouca/ Liberte/ Salmen brickyard in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, synthetic color, water and ink on raw canvas
31" x 31"
framed in maple
On view at Arts New Orleans' SALON Gallery + Studios at Canal Place April 23 - May 8.
ABOUT THE PIECE:
‘Evangeline Deconstructed’ is made from watery color fields of dark wetland soil and orange clay paint from southern Louisiana. The wetland soils were collected by a soil scientist to study the effectiveness of wetland conservation strategies in Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge, Grand Chenier, Louisiana, and were then donated to the artist at the conclusion of the study. Harris then processed the soil samples into fine pigments which became the first layers of each painting. From there, she added water and synthetic color to the land and responded to forms and colors created as the land broke apart on the canvas.
The Evangeline paintings references landscape paintings from the late 1800s in which white male artists romanticized Louisiana and promoted her ‘untouched’ land as an invitation for white land ownership. Harris’s interpretations of the constructed landscape explore parallels between the treatment of women and the earth as well as the throughlines between colonization and Louisiana’s current environmental crises.
SHIPPING
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Original painting orders will be processed by May 10, after the closure of the exhibition.
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Will be professionally packaged and shipped.
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International shipping available. Additional shipping amount will be invoiced after purchase.
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INFO
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