acrylic-painted ceramic, metal leaf, wire; 48″x6″x24″
“My piece is a tribute to Palestinians who suffered torture at the hands of colonial powers. In 1917 Lord Arthur James Balfour wrote a letter that shaped history for the Middle East; it is regarded as the catalyst for the Zionist movement in British-occupied Palestine. In response, Jewish asylum seekers migrated to Palestine, resulting in an ethnic clash for what became the Nakba, which is translated from Arabic as The Catastrophe.”
ARTIST BIO: First-generation American, Kyle Christoph Salandy (b. 1991, Brooklyn, New York) was raised in Southeastern Pennsylvania with roots in Trinidad and Tobago. Currently pursuing dual degrees at the University of Cincinnati to earn both a Master of Fine Arts and a Master of Arts in Art Education. A ceramics artist, he explores identity, cultural history, and resilience through dramatic figurative forms, vessels, and altars based on pan-African spiritual worldviews, ancestral memories, and ritual aesthetics