Xilomena

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"Xilomena"

17"x"24"x2" 

Acrylic painting on canvas with glitter and black sharpies

This divine goddess is celebrating African descendants living on all continents.

She is an Aztec goddess of agriculture, sometimes called "goddess of nourishment", a goddess of abundance and the female aspect. She can be described as a deity of food, drink, and human livelihood. With this painting, I want to bring awareness to sustainable agricultural practices and the end of genetically modified crops, especially corn, choclo, elote, a Mesoamerican sacred food plant.

Curanderas, Hechicheras y Herbolarias
These painting are a visual narrative, depicting whimsical women, goddesses, and queens, calling for healing, harmony and reconnection with ancient herbal wisdom. Each painting has a layer of gold or silver glitter, where in many cultures, gold is a symbol of power, divinity, and immortality. These paintings have been created in the last year and a half. (2021)

Along my artistic practice, these paintings have helped me cope towards a personal healing and understanding of the power of being intentional while recovering from Covid trauma, car accident injuries, toxic relationships, and political corruption in the last 4 years.

Amaranta Ibarra-Sandys is a South Seattle based visual artist. She was born and raised in Mexico City, but she calls the PNW her home. She is a bilingual art educator, youth mural facilitator, public artist, business entrepreneur, performer, community builder, gardener, mother of a teenager and a cat mama.

Covid 2020 shifted her individual creative process, refining her style. She uses acrylics, watercolors, clay, tin boxes, maps and yarn. Her illustrations of gloomy landscapes, women, goddesses, and skeletons reclaim ancient rituals. Food and language blend elements of the PNW: trees, nature, sea life and mountains. Art has been her tool for social change in hopes to inspire others to find a fulfilling purpose in life.

 

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