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Piñata Pieces

acrylic and plaster on canvas with digital collage, 36x96, 2025

This piece explores nostalgic symbols as a clustered representation of the artists multi-racial identity. The shapes gather together in a time capsule of cultural heritage and exploration. Only a few of the shapes represent historically categorized ancestral symbols. The shapes that are abstracted depict the unknown or uncertainty in ancestry, a refection of the erasure of culture through assimilation. By exploring new shapes, Morgan DeVillier embraces the unknown to reshape their sense of self and identity as a person with diverse and unknown ancestry and culture. The white spaces emphasize the notion of erasure and the self history of disconnection from cultural practices, creating a sense of emptiness and tension within the piece. The represented symbols and shapes clustered and unorganized over a white plaster de paris can be viewed as the childlike nature of discovery, like drawing on white walls.

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Piñata Pieces 2, 24x36, acrylic and plaster on canvas, 2025

Piñata Pieces 1, 24x36, acrylic and plaster on canvas, 2025

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