Jose   Mota
IMPOSED FRONTIERS by Jose   Mota, Image 1.
~"Imposed Frontiers" manifest of destiny onto a new territory, signifying of power and control separating stablished societies shaped by ownership, dominance, and surveying of resources, forcing intrusive agreements by rearranging the landscape, with little or non consensus of the people who inhabits the land and their history. This composition becomes a narrative of interference; the moment when an external authority redraws a world that was never theirs to shape. These imposed frontiers don’t just divide land; they fracture identity, memory, and the delicate ecosystem that tie a community to its home. a visual testament to the tension between lived geography and enforced geography. Yet within the disruption, there is resilience and push back across the imposed lines, refusing to be contained. In that resistance, the artwork suggests that even when borders are forced upon a people, the deeper truth of place the one carried in culture, story, and collective memory can not be erased.
  • Jose Mota
  • IMPOSED FRONTIERS
  • Mixed Media, autobody filler putty, acrylic, oil, oil marker on wood pannel.
  • 26 x 38 x 3.5 in (66.04 x 96.52 x 8.89 cm)
  • $2,500
  • Available