This Is Me by Anita Fix with Marvin “Running River” Banks
Medium: Scott tissue wrapper, Embroidery floss, chalk, charcoal, conte crayon, pastels, drumhead box, photocopied images
Size: 18″ x 16″
Artist statement: “This Is Me: working in collaboration with inside family and happily participating in the liberatory organisms of Let’s Get Free and the American Indian Movement People’s Alliance affirming that today’s society need not suffer under outdated laws and thinking. Imagining a today where our beautiful-spirited inside comrades may be released from prison and allowed to thrive and serve tomorrow mightily in a world where we accept the guidance of indigenous wisdom”
Artist website / social media: @anitasphinx, anitafix.bandcamp.com, Running River (Banks) on Facebook, anitafix.com
Image description: Top and bottom are framed by the image of a Native American headband created by and gifted to me by Running River Banks. Sides are framed by multiple photocopies of a Let’s Get Free T-shirt design created by Running River, LGF is the top of a key going into a keyhole, Let’s Get Free is written on a green flag wrapping the shaft of the key. windows form one side of the key. on the other side a heart stands between 3 chain links and a rainbow peace sign. An AIM logo appears among these LGF designs. Body of the work has words stitched over an abstract background reading: Free To Believe Anything, Free To Think Any Thought, Free To Dismiss Imprisonment To Inertia, Free To Grow Beyond Yesterday’s Understanding ((How) and (Are We) are crossed out on either side of the final Free). The box from a Remo drumhead peeks out below.