Migration Map: National Geographic Society Genographic Project
In spring of 2010, I began working on Eve's Imprint. This work consists of creating fine art that is based on my thirty-plus years of personal multi-cultural and global experience; a lifetime of reading anthropological, archeological, and genetic research; and discovering my own DNA results through National Geographic Society’s Genographic Project. The intent of Eve's Imprint as an exhibition is to establish an environment that evokes contemplation and reflection on our global family, the human genome. It is an extensive project that will take several years to complete.
Imagining Eve’s Imprint Exhibition
I currently imagine Eve's Imprint exhibition consisting of twelve alcoves
arranged in a circle around an image of the earth as seen from space and
encircled by twelve figures that correspond to the alcoves. Marking the
perimeter of the center will be pillars that represent climatic realities humans
have always confronted such as comet, typhoon, cyclone, hurricane, flood,
earthquake, volcanic eruption, and wildfire.
Each alcove will be created by hanging or standing panels
that hold paintings. It will contain three-dimensional elements as well as sketchbooks revealing my
creative process. Alcoves will be grouped in quadrants that include:
Beginning Our Global
Human Journey
1. Evolving Hominids Produce Homo Sapiens
200,000 Years Ago: Cooled by Sumatra’s Volcanic Eruption
South and Sub-Saharan Africa
2. Crossing the Red Sea
70,000-50,000 Years Ago: Near East/Levant
Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
3. Fishing Our Way Eastward
70,000-50,000 Years Ago: Southwest Asia
Iran,
Iraq, Syria, India, Pakistan, Nepal
Following Receding
Ice into New Lands
4. Inhabiting the Ice Age Culprit
50,000 Years Ago: Southeast Asia/Oceania
Former Indochina, Australia and the Pacific Islands
5. Creating Coastal and Cold-Bearing Cultures
45,000-35,000 Years Ago: Northeast Asia
China, Korea, Japan, Mongolia and Siberia
6.
Moving
North and West as Population Expands
45,000-35,000 Years Ago: Mediterranean
Balkans,
Greece, Italy, France, Iberia, North Africa
Migrating Inland and
Westward
7. Following Animals to Water
30,000 Years Ago: Central Asia
Tibet, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, former Soviet Union countries
8. Traversing the Caucasus
30,000 Years Ago: Northern Europe
Germany, Scandinavia, United Kingdom
9. Crossing Beringia
20,000 Years Ago: The Americas
North,
Central and South America
Cherishing Our Global
Family
10. Occupying Planet Earth
10,000 Years Ago: Inventing
Agriculture
Begins Taxing Earth’s Systems
11. Sharing My Ancestral Journey
Merging Mediterranean Cave
Painters and
Northern European Artisans
12. Our Common Future
Witnessing Site-Specific Sponsor's
Cultural Contributions
The corners of the exhibition space will be discovery
centers with videos to watch, books to peruse, binders of related articles to
read, as well as emblematic cultural artifacts to observe.
