“Summoning Toads By Flooding Their Holes” by Angelica Raquel Martinez
artist: ANGELICA RAQUEL MARTINEZ
SUMMONING TOADS BY FLOODING THEIR HOLES
12” x 9” Gouache on paper, 2021
ARTIST STATEMENT
“When I was young, my dreams mostly haunted me. The night was filled with the dread of ghosts and demons; my sleep was fearful, and metaphors I could not understand plagued me until young adulthood. Since my mid-twenties, after the loss of my grandfather who glued my extended family together, I have been combing through my past. Partly because I simply want to remember him and those experiences I won’t get to have again, but also partly to understand myself and how I’ve reached this point of my life. I think back, lovingly to honey dripped memories and a youth spent en el monte, but also to those dreams and night terrors and how they are so intertwined to my personal lore.
I still dream, not of dread but of rest and light; these days the waking world is filled with so much fear and death that my mind does not need to play these unconscious hypotheticals to understand it. My hands instead thread it, weave it, and illustrate it; anxieties and lore and all that I devour.”
—Angelica Raquel Martinez
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