
Notes on a Future Mythology
Paintings by Lucia Enriquez
October 10 – January 11
Opening reception Thursday, October 10 from 6 to 8 pm
Artist Statement
This exhibit explores myth, from my cultural past in the Philippines, as well as my present in the Skagit Valley. In myths from the past, I explore themes from precolonial creation stories: the dragon Bakunawa eating the moon; the bird Agila looking for land after the flood. I humanize the feelings of these creatures and imbue their transitions and actions with resonance from my own ancestral history.
In the Skagit Valley, I’ve immersed myself in forests, spending time by myself in the woods. I watch sunlight filter through the trees in varying stages of growth and decay, smell resin the air after a rain, marvel at swamp cabbage appearing like primordial candles in the Spring. My walks in the woods take me into something timeless, and I feel the surroundings as if they are extensions of my body.
By combining the past and the present, these paintings seek to ask: what qualities of the landscape might comprise future mythologies? What stories might define our shared future?