Photograph by Contemporary Native American artist Cara Romero titled 'Hermosa', Trotta-Bono Contemporary in Los Angeles, CA

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.