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| .Nature.Femme. Conceptual clothing designs produced by Venaya Yazzie (Dine'/Hopi) Model, C. Birdhead is pictured in the Aspen Forest. Photo credit Venaya Yazzie 2015 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED |
I have been making plans and thus working at a slow pace in producing my own line of conceptual Art clothing. The project was inspired by my desert home in northwestern New Mexico on the Eastern Navajo Reservation.
.Nature.Femme. is about Navajo ancestral memory and the need to recall and re-tell Navajo cultural landscapes that have been perpetuated via Navajo oral tradition.
Growing up in around the communities on the eastern Navajo reservation near Huerfano, NM I have always been fascinated with concepts of 'Indigenous Adornment.' My maternal grandmothers' and aunts were always a favorite sight as they were usually 'adorned' head to toe in post-Long Walk Navajo garb.
As a visual artist and poet, I have found much inspiration from my memories of my childhood full of Navajo matriarchs. I know this new series of conceptual clothing with be made to tell their histories, it is bahane'.
.in beauty.
.in beauty.
