Second Gear: Mobile Artist in Residence Program Announces New Participants
For their project, titled Species Pending, Banks and White Eagle will reimagine the historical narrative based on the shuvosaurid or proto-dinosaur Effigia okeeffeae, whose name is a tribute to Georgia O’Keeffe. This animal lived on the ancient continent of Pangea during the late Triassicperiod and its holotype fossils were found in blocks collected in the 1940s at Ghost Ranch, where O’Keeffe lived and owned a home. Through an Indigenous lens of rewriting or “re-righting” history, the duo will steer the narrative about this fossil toward a more Indigenous perspective. Using imagery, sculpture, and installation that is reminiscent of archived historical photographs and items, Banks and White Eagle reinterpret how this fossil and animal is presented.
Preliminary sketches for the first meeting of initial ideas.
