Dirt Worshipper
2015
“The text based installation calls upon stereotypes, color meaning, and language to communicate ideas of identity and cultural heritage. The quotes are derived from different sources including advice the artist received from a Lakota elder, a line from a Sundance song, as well as derogatory terms popularized in the late 1800s, such as “dirt worshipper.” Claxton is taking ownership of these terms to enable their positive connotations. Taken together, the quotes reveal a distinctly Native American cosmology.”
— By Erin Joyce for You Are On Indian Land at the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, 2015
You Are On Indian Land, Institute for American Indian Art, Santa Fe, 2015. Mural, vinyl lettering on wall. Courtesy of the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts.
You Are On Indian Land, Institute for American Indian Art, Santa Fe, 2015. Mural, vinyl lettering on wall. Courtesy of the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts.
You Are On Indian Land, Institute for American Indian Art, Santa Fe, 2015. Mural, vinyl lettering on wall. Courtesy of the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts.
Dirt Worshipper, 2015. Ink on fabric, performance. AHVA gallery, Audain Centre for the Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada. Photography by Pauline Petit.
Dirt Worshipper, 2015. Ink on fabric, performance. AHVA gallery, Audain Centre for the Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada. Photography by Pauline Petit.
Dirt Worshipper, 2015. Ink on fabric, performance. AHVA gallery, Audain Centre for the Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada. Photography by Pauline Petit.
Dirt Worshipper, 2015. Ink on fabric, performance. AHVA gallery, Audain Centre for the Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada.
Dirt Worshipper, 2015. Ink on fabric, performance. AHVA gallery, Audain Centre for the Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada.
Dirt Worshipper, 2015. Ink on fabric, performance. AHVA gallery, Audain Centre for the Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada. Photography by Pauline Petit.
Dirt Worshipper, installed at Dana Claxton: Fringing the Cube, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Canada, 2018. Photography by Maegan Hill-Carroll, Vancouver Art Gallery.