{"id":3356,"date":"2015-08-12T19:41:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T19:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/home\/?page_id=3356"},"modified":"2024-04-02T21:48:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T21:48:31","slug":"we-were-sun-worshippers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/home\/we-were-sun-worshippers","title":{"rendered":"When We Were Sun-Worshippers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>La Esquina \u2022 NYC (Soho) \u2022 Sept &#8211; Nov 2015<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3356 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/44E5CCCA-AC13-4FB8-81AC-62EE69E2ED70.jpeg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noahsaterstrom.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/44E5CCCA-AC13-4FB8-81AC-62EE69E2ED70-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail 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I specifically draw from memoirs recounting the family fleeing during the Civil War to the l<\/p>\n<p>ittle town of Shubuta. Themes vary but repeating motifs include a family on the move, houses and landscapes, classical statuary, a fountain, wagon mules, a lion-like creature, suns, and celestial eyes.<\/p>\n<p>There are stories behind these paintings, but to borrow from the painter Katherine Bradford: <em>all decisions are visual decisions<\/em>. The paintings are not necessarily about a specific story or identity or politics or a stance. They\u2019re about what will work, visually, with what\u2019s there. Will this image\/mark help the painting or shut it down? Often you don\u2019t know until you\u2019ve made the mark.<\/p>\n<p>Each painting has its own unique system of governance. I try to stick to a theme or an approach, but, of course, as soon as an image begins I am subject to its peculiarities. In the end, I measure success by whether the painting feels unified despite itself. While some of my recent work concerns Southern ancestral narratives \u2013 including the hard, sometimes shameful, always repugnant, and often baffling reality of slave owning forebears \u2013 the images are not fixed and I am happy with as many readings as the paintings can hold.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Noah Saterstrom, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Esquina \u2022 NYC (Soho) \u2022 Sept &#8211; Nov 2015 The imagery in these paintings is heavily influenced by my ancestral roots in Natchez, Mississippi. I specifically draw from memoirs recounting the family fleeing during the Civil War to the l ittle town of Shubuta. 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