Desire Lines, Baboquivari Peak, AZ
Object Details
- Artist
- Delilah Montoya, born Fort Worth, TX 1955
- Exhibition Label
- Delilah Montoya's work focuses on the rich and complex histories of the landscape and communities of the borderlands between Mexico and the United States. Desire Lines: Baboquivari Peak, AZ shows the Tohono O'odham Reservation, which straddles the border of Arizona and the Sonora region of Mexico. The mountains seen in the distance are the site of the Tohono O'odham creation story. In having to travel between these regions, the people of the O'odham community become both migrants and natives within their own ancestral homeland. Scattered throughout the landscape are water jugs, placed along the reservation border to provide water to migrants on their journey. Montoya explicitly rejects the doctrine of Manifest Destiny and the misconception that these lands were unexplored terrain prior to the invasion of white settlers and the creation of borders between two nations.
- Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea, 2023
- Las obras de Delilah Montoya se centran en las ricas y complejas historias del paisaje y las comunidades de las tierras fronterizas entre México y los Estados Unidos. En Desire Lines: Baboquivari Peak, AZ se muestra la reserva Tohono O'odham, que se extiende a lo largo de la frontera entre Arizona y la región mexicana de Sonora. Las montañas que se ven a lo lejos son el lugar histórico de la creación de la nación Tohono O'odham. Al tener que viajar entre estas regiones, los habitantes de la comunidad O'odham se convierten a la vez en emigrantes y pueblos nativos dentro de su propia patria ancestral. Dispersos por el paisaje hay cántaros de agua, colocados a lo largo de la frontera de la reserva para que los migrantes tengan agua en su viaje. Montoya rechaza explícitamente la doctrina del "Destino manifiesto" y la idea errónea de que estas tierras eran un terreno inexplorado antes de la invasión de los colonos blancos y la creación de fronteras entre dos naciones.
- Más de un oeste: Visiones artísticas de una idea estadounidense, 2023
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Gilberto Cardenas Latino Art Collection
- Copyright
- © 2004, Delilah Montoya
- 2004, printed 2008
- Object number
- 2011.52.1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Photography-Photoprint
- Medium
- inkjet print
- Dimensions
- image: 12 3/4 x 47 1/2 in. (32.4 x 120.7 cm)
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Graphic Arts
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Landscape\desert
- Landscape\Arizona
- Landscape\mountain\Baboquivari Peak
- Record ID
- saam_2011.52.1
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7d1ef39ad-9a0a-4129-9505-389a51b152d2
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