El Nopal Press
Description
What if we could see the world anew? Daniel Joseph Martinez's four-part print conceives the US-Mexico border as a place of discovery. Martinez superimposes large arrows and postcards of beautiful destinations on a map of the region to suggest the passage of an explorer. The final panel offers another way to break with the world as we know it. It adapts text from a 1990s Gap store ad campaign that pictured famous people like Miles Davis, Andy Warhol, and Amelia Earhart wearing khakis. Rather than focus on esteemed cultured icons, Martinez names dictators and military strongmen who also wore khakis.
Color Lithograph
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program