Angela Ferrari
Sangre y Polvo (Blood & Dust)
Ángela Ferrari discusses her mural-sized oil and acrylic painting, "Sangre y Polvo" (Blood & Dust) inside of her Mexico City studio.
Ferrari began working on Sangre y Polvo in the summer of 2021. After purchasing a massive canvas (approximately 25’ x 14’), Ferrari began the painting by sketching out a single plant while standing on a chair stacked on top of a desk. She then drew a second and third plant and hasn’t stopped since.
The imagery of the painting is inspired by European hunting scenes, depicting packs of large dogs trained to hunt and kill. The idea behind Ferrari’s work is to highlight this normalized violence, in particular that which is conducted by colonizing powers.
The painting is meant to call into question, in the words of Ferrari “what is civilized and what is barbaric?”
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