Blue Jay
- ink on tyvek
- Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez
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Not For Sale
Blue Jay
Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus)
Páthiⁿwazhíⁿgetá (Umónhon)
In Native cultures of the Pacific Northwest, the Trickster Coyote is often replaced by clever corvids like the Common Raven and the Blue Jay. Unfortunately, their original trickster import has been obscured by Euro(-American) “symbol-hunters,” who would reduce the subtleties of indigenous cultural narratives to some blatant “good v. evil” morality, or simple-minded superstition. For example: “Blue jay symbolism is a powerful learning tool. A blue jay indicates that you need to communicate more clearly and it also tells you that you need to take a closer look at the people you are dealing with.”
For this collection, the artist would like to acknowledge the following people:
Thomas Gannon, Associate Professor, English and Ethnnic Studies, UNL for writing the accompanying texts. Sofía F. Echeverry for her work as studio assistant.
Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez is a Colombo-American, mid-career artist with an interdisciplinary practice. She grew up in Colombia as the child of a Colombian and a United States citizen and migrated to the US as an adult. Her art is about the curious and intense experience of having physically migrated, yet still having a piece of herself rooted in Colombia. She is creating an intersectional feminist visual novel that is a multifaceted project comprised of paintings, sculptures, objects, and mixed media that together—and in different voices—weave a synchronicity of dialogues, passages, and punctuations about hybridity and cultural ownership.
- Created: June 2021
- Inventory Number: 20V.747.2021
- Current Location: University of Nebraska Lincoln - Enterprise Technology at Nebraska Hall - 1400 R St Lincoln, NE 68588 (google map)
- Collections: 1. New Acquisitions, University of Nebraska Lincoln