Propter Nos (Homage to Sylvia Wynter), 2021
White wall, secuity tapes, compass, sand from Moab, Utah, adhesive, paper cutouts from 2020 Easter Jeep Safari magazine, painter’s tape
34 x 28 inches

Messaging about outdoor conservation and recreation uses rhetorical devices that preserve colonial-settler mentalities of manifest destiny. Conflations such as “Our heritage” grant non-indiginous Americans a claim to a culture that is not theirs.