The Dance

"THE DANCE OF THE GENES"

This is a canvas 2 yards high by 18 yards long. I started painting in November, 2002, which continues to evolve.

The subject has been in my mind for the past few years and it represents an introduction to my studies of DNA. However, it is the first time I have had the space to hang this size of canvas and the opportunity to express my feelings about this fascinating topic.

It begins with the origin of myself and my family, and evolves to a question of where are we going to?... My desire is to record all these events that move my soul on canvas while I still have the energy to do so...

Mara Odette

• A million ancestors

• Of a million ancestors recline

• In the spiral helix

• That binds us to our cells.

• Our genes contain all heaven,

• And an infinite number of hells.

a poem written by: Brash © November 6, 2002

MY SEARCH

Will this search of my identity take me curiously into the atrium of the double heliocentric gearing of DNA?

I begin with "Morning Meditations" to prepare to look outside myself and my surroundings, finding in people partial mirrors of my true self and, while gazing momentarily at a person, he or she appears somehow different, but after brief observation by way of the curves, movement, sizes and colors, people become very familiar to me.

Even when traveling around the planet, to include Europe, Asia, and throughout all my beloved Americas, the whole human race has many, many similarities with me. Am I am becoming aware that I am part of the Human Race?

Then, questions arise: Who am I? . Who are you? Who are we? A little bit of this, a little bit of that... Where did I come from? What and where are my roots? And a far more interesting question: Where are we going? And what are we to become? Of course it is fascinating to think of all the complexity, the miraculous ellipses of DNA. At the atrium of the double vertices of existence. The whole Human Race dwells in my blood! I am Indian, Caucasian, Black, Brown and Yellow, and who knows what other circumstances in the fascinating impulses of life.

I was born from one of those impulses. They must have been robust impulses to start life in the freezing mornings of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, where the zarape that embraces your body doesn't reach the tip of the nose, where one trembles by the note of the " llovizna maňanera "

That is why I call my work: "LIFESCAPES": All that was new, yet it becomes old and comfortable to look, to feel, to touch. people: babies, children; old and young. Drawing and painting the human figure is like tracing my insights; it is a beautiful experience. It is a form of meditation. This way I always return were I started: Feeling a sensation of a Higher Power. The images of my canvas are very old and very new at the same time.

THE DANCE OF THE GENES

• THIS EXHIBIT WAS POSSIBLE UNDER THE SPONSORSHIP OF:

• GRUPO ROBLES RAMIREZ

• AND

• CONELCUTA - CHIAPAS

• CHIAPAS STATE COUNSEL ON CULTURE

MUSEO JAIME SABINES, TUXTLA GUTIERREZ; MUSEO DE CULTURAL POPULARES, SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS; MUSEO HERMILA DOMINGUEZ, COMITAN; TEATRO DE LA CIUDAD, TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS

"The Exhibitions in my native State of Chiapas , Mexico has been one of the most fulfilling experiences in my life..."