Pacific Diaspora Kin
Coyote Park, 2Spirit / Korean / German / Yurok / American
2022
Color photograph on paper
Image: 24 1/8 × 36 1/4 in. (61.3 × 92 cm)
Sheet: 25 1/16 × 37 3/16 in. (63.7 × 94.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Anonymous Fund #144
© Coyote Park
2023.7.4
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
21st century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
none
Label
This self portrait of the artist and members of their kin tells a story of homecoming. Whether home be among chosen family, within one’s body, within one’s gender, or united with nature, Pacific Diaspora Kin celebrates the sanctity and ceremony of Indigenous peoples coming home to their traditional ways. Through depicting himself nude and nestled on a hillside, the artist expresses kinship and relationality with the natural world. Intertwined and bathed in a golden light, Coyote makes place for healing by documenting and preserving the joy, divinity, and lucidity that result from being in community with nature. Sharing space, story, and memory restores harmony to us and all our relations.
From the 2023 exhibition Love as Ceremony: Legacies of Two-Spirit Liberation, A Space for Dialogue 114, curated by Moonoka Begay '23, Conroy Intern
Course History
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 2.01, Introduction to Queer Studies, Eng-Beng Lim, Summer 2023
English 31.01, Asian American Literature and Culture, Jodi Kim, Fall 2023
English 7.62, War and Colonialism in Asian American Literature, Jodi Kim, Spring 2024
Space for DIalogue Gallery Talk: Love as Ceremony: Legacies of Two-Spirit Liberation, Fall 2023
Exhibition History
A Space for Dialogue 114, Love as Ceremony: Legacies of Two-Spirit Liberation, Moonoka Begay, '23, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 19 August - 14 October 2023.
Provenance
The artist, Coyote Park; sold to present collection, 2023.
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