Fox Squirrel
- ink on tyvek
- Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez
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Not For Sale
Fox Squirrel
Sciurus niger (Linnaeus)
Síⁿga (Umónhon)
“As per Native American symbolism, squirrel represents a storehouse of energy. It is always gathering and building up stores, which means preparing for the future. It also hides its food in different places – a sign the Natives took for better preparedness and stocking up in different areas for a safer and happier future” (Clifford, “Squirrel Symbolism & Meaning [+Totem, Spirit & Omens]”).
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.744.2021
- 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