{"id":2270,"date":"2022-05-06T18:52:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T18:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/?page_id=2270"},"modified":"2022-05-07T19:31:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T19:31:09","slug":"maggie-libby-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/maggie-libby-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Maggie Libby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Artist&#8217;s Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2022\/05\/Libby-\u2013-Freighted-4-982x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2278\" width=\"520\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2022\/05\/Libby-\u2013-Freighted-4-982x1024.jpg 982w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2022\/05\/Libby-\u2013-Freighted-4-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2022\/05\/Libby-\u2013-Freighted-4-768x801.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2022\/05\/Libby-\u2013-Freighted-4-1474x1536.jpg 1474w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2022\/05\/Libby-\u2013-Freighted-4.jpg 1842w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption>Maggie Libby, <em>Freighted, <\/em>2021. Collage, oil pastel over acrylic on panel.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Our horizons and oceans are symbols of expansiveness and travel but also references to colonialism, transport of enslaved peoples, materialism, pollution, and over-fishing. How freighted are we with our concepts of nature, consumption, capitalism, and democracy? Let&#8217;s become unmoored from our unworkable systems and structures, become fluid, flexible, green!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2022\/05\/Libby-\u2013-Fluid-Boundaries-Erase-Borders.-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2279\" width=\"513\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2022\/05\/Libby-\u2013-Fluid-Boundaries-Erase-Borders.-3.jpg 550w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2022\/05\/Libby-\u2013-Fluid-Boundaries-Erase-Borders.-3-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/><figcaption>Maggie Libby, <em>Fluid Boundaries, Erase Borders, <\/em>2020. Charcoal, eraser over acrylic on panel.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Fluid Boundaries Erase Borders<\/em> was made as part of my <em>Exhortations on the Ground<\/em> series, created while the nation&#8217;s leader ignited hate and divisiveness, racism, prejudice; imprisoning parents and children seeking to come to this country. We have imposed artificial boundaries on the land taken by force from native peoples. We create artificial boundaries between citizen and non-citizen. We are held captive by internalized expectations of behavior, group and gender conformity. Can we reimagine those boundaries?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist&#8217;s Statement Our horizons and oceans are symbols of expansiveness and travel but also references to colonialism, transport of enslaved peoples, materialism, pollution, and over-fishing. How freighted are we with our concepts of nature, consumption, capitalism, and democracy? Let&#8217;s become unmoored from our unworkable systems and structures, become fluid, flexible, green! 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