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A citizen of the Oneida Nation, Cornelius challenges in his work stereotypical views of First Nation cultures. His drawing series Radio Free Alcatraz imagines a future where the 1969–73 occupation of Alcatraz Island by the activist group Indians of All Tribes succeeded in establishing a Native university, cultural center, and ecological center at the site of the former prison. Cornelius’s visual language captures essential aspects of Indigenous beliefs about the development of the universe, including the coexistence of various temporal and spatial realities. “I often use animals as scale figures in my work,” he said while discussing Bear, a speculative model that conveys the idea that the ground should be shared with our “non-human relatives.”
2024
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