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Netoa Jones delivers her statement at the Assembly of Governments meeting last Thursday night.
Photo by Kirk Ross.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT:
Artist's statement on A Geisha's Story - Visions of Asia. This collection was created by Mr. Mayers for a public art exhibit that took place on December 2, 2011 in Corona, California. The entire presentation was originally created to be displayed on a digital outdoor billboard.
Artist Statement (by MelOrchid)
This work exists in the aftermath of belief.
The billboard once sold a promise—happiness distilled, identity simplified, desire made portable. Now it stands rusted and towering, still speaking louder than the land beneath it. The figure below does not look back in anger, but in reckoning.
Her body carries marks—not of a single event, but of prolonged exposure. To systems. To consumption. To the quiet violence of being told what will save you. The blue of her skin is artificial, learned, absorbed—an echo of what we ingest without noticing. And yet, life insists. White flowers bloom anyway.
I am not interested in apocalypse as spectacle. I am interested in what remains after faith in the spectacle collapses.
This piece asks:
When the promise fails, what part of us is still capable of standing—and what grows at our feet despite it?
My best childhood memory is not having to pay bills.
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