With scavenged materials, Amanda Maciel Antunes constructs a motherland.
Anya Ventura
Anya Ventura is a writer currently based in Los Angeles.
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Artist Betty Tompkins Overlays Women’s Bodies With #MeToo Testimonies
Tompkins unflinchingly looks at how female bodies are displayed, disciplined, and offered up to men.
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LA Forces Unhoused Residents From Echo Park, Leaving Behind Community Art Project and Garden
City councilman Mitch O’Farrell abruptly closed the park for renovations, displacing residents with little notice.
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Bright, Intimate Animations Relay Letters From Prison
The diaristic animations offer portraits of people grappling with their pasts, the weight of trauma, and the need for love.
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A Community Garden With Radical Potential Blossoms in Los Angeles
The garden is a collaboration between performance artist Paige Emery and Echo Park Rise Up, an autonomous collective of unhoused people living at Echo Park Lake.