Exhibition Guide
Echo Map I
Audio
Echo Map 1 Visual Description
Read Transcript
Art Object Info
In Echo Map I, state names are replaced with the words for “hello” in Spanish and French or obscured by newspaper clippings and paint drips over borders, symbolizing the erasure of Native presence and historical land claims. The map becomes a representation of erasure and invisibility, with Native lives and connections to the land overwritten by European dominance.
Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith began her series of U.S. map paintings in 1992 to mark the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ landing in the Bahamas and to respond to the United States’ quincentennial celebrations. As a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation, Smith sought to address the legacy of violence and dispossession faced by Native people following European colonization.
Echo Map I
In Echo Map I, state names are replaced with the words for “hello” in Spanish and French or obscured by newspaper clippings and paint drips over borders, symbolizing the erasure of Native presence and historical land claims. The map becomes a representation of erasure and invisibility, with Native lives and connections to the land overwritten by European dominance.
Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith began her series of U.S. map paintings in 1992 to mark the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ landing in the Bahamas and to respond to the United States’ quincentennial celebrations. As a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation, Smith sought to address the legacy of violence and dispossession faced by Native people following European colonization.