Dear FUTUre 1

crowded dreams or how the dead speak

crowded dreams or how the dead speak (detail)

badass lament (Rosa Rosà)

dear future

mediums

futurism

cut on the bias

prop roots, braids and ellipses

passage

hold

gathering

over sea and land

“This series of new mixed media paintings engages with the full constellation of Ranu’s concerns and interests: ecology, motherhood, and biodiversity; the human body and labor; modernity, climate change, and sacred cultures; the impoverishment of the imagination and the promise of unimagined utopias; feminist futurism and the strength of listening. Through layering pigment and fabric, Ranu weaves together these concerns along intersecting narrative lines, creating a series of conceptual threads from the intimacy of a moment shared between a mother and a daughter to a renewed understanding of ecology, from accounts of children attempting to cross the US-Mexico border to a thousand-year-old mythological Indian figure, from ancient and immovable Banyan trees to train compartments and fleeting moments of passage.” Timothy Don