Ways of Seeing, Ways of Being - Then and Now

Melissa Bob

Cultural affiliations: Lummi

born 1982

Ways of Seeing, Ways of Being - Then and Now, 2004

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: collagraph; monoprint; collage; wove paper; screen print

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 457 x 305 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 18 0.9921 x 12 1/2 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 577 x 387 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 22 11/16 x 15 1/4 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 25 x 20 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Peter T. Bohan Art Acquisition Fund

Accession number: 2005.0082.03

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The top of this print features a blue sky and green trees with roots, while the bottom shows a gray area of houses with roots below. A jagged red line at the top is contrasted with a mostly flat line on the bottom, recalling the peaks and valleys made by a heart rate monitor. Through this juxtaposition, Melissa Bob, a contemporary Native American artist, confronts the historical events that changed her people and environment. Beginning in the 1800s, territorial expansion by Anglo-American settlers encroached upon and destroyed the land of Native Americans. Landscapes once filled with green trees turned into a dead place of houses and suburban developments. As the title of her print suggests, the natural environment of then and now has shaped and altered Native American ways of seeing and being.