CARA ROMERO
HERMOSA
Date: 2021
Dimensions: 32” x 25” (Art) / 33.5” x 27” (Framed)
Edition of 13
Medium: Archival fine art photograph printed on Legacy Platine paper
Condition: Overall excellent
Provenance:
– Artist’s Studio, Santa Fe, NM
– Trotta-Bono, Los Angeles, CA
Collections:
– The Huntington
– Minneapolis Institute of Art
– Detroit Institute of Art
Notes: This spectacular image was captured candidly during an intimate shoot at sunset with my daughter, Crickett Tiger, on the shore of Hermosa Beach. Going to Los Angeles was a homecoming to my birthplace, but it was also a pilgrimage to the Chemehuevi place of creation. These months we spent at the beach became a modern remembrance of Chemehuevi creation stories and creation songs and the mythos of Great Ocean Woman (Hutsipamamow). They became a visualization of the indigenous worldview that these places, however developed, are still holy places to First Peoples.