I consider myself a chronologist on the
absurdity of human nature, their griefs
their passions and their anguish. Diego
Romero is taking Indian pottery into a
new realm. It doesn't have to be judicial.
There's more than one way to make a pot.
You're walking that way. point your feet
that way.
Perfect you guys.What comes through in
my photographs is that Native Americans
are still very much alive.
Our indigeneity emerges in modern times.
My being deaf was probably the first
identity that I was aware of. Then
there was being female in a male-dominated woodworking field.
And then of course being
Japanese-American. 120,000 ethnic
Japanese were sent to internment camps.
 
The objects they made reflected their
unwillingness to just give up and give in.
I'm a figurative sculptor. I need to
draw out of the clay a sense of presence.
Cristina's achieved a mastery. She
masters the material. It's very strong images,
that are potent images.
I'm originally from Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rican identity is at the core of
everything I depart from to understand the world.
Hurricane Maria was devastating.
But in Puerto Rico there's a whole new
generation of young artists doing
interesting things. This moment of crisis
reinforces the search for that identity.
 
