“Calida Rawles: In Conversation.” Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides, exhibition catalogue, Pérez Art Museum Miami (2024)
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Excerpt from: Calida Rawles: In Conversation, in Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides, exhibition catalogue, edited by Maritza M. Lacayo, Pérez Art Museum Miami, 2024:

"The Gulf Stream is a painting by Winslow Homer in which a man faces his demise on a distanted, rudderless fishing boat surrounded by sharks with a storm brewing in the distance. It’s in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The met website describes how the man adrift "is oblivious to the schooner on the left horizon, which Homer later added to the composition as a sign of hope and rescue. Painted shortly after the death of his father in 1898, the painting has been interpreted as an expression of the artist’s presumed sense of mortality and vulnerability. The Gulf Stream also references some of the comped social and political issues of the era—war, the legacy of slavery and American imperialism, as well as more universal concerns with fragility of human life and the force of nature." This is an excerpted museum’s description of this piece, which I think addresses a certain aspect of it, because the painting can be read in different ways. This is an image that you’re very familiar with, and have known from a very young age. How did you first see this image? And how does it relate to your work?..."

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“Calida Rawles: In Conversation.” Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides, exhibition catalogue, ed. Maritza M. Lacayo, Pérez Art Museum Miami (2024)
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