El Juicio / Judgment

Judgment by Susana Araón

Susana Aragón

Acrylic on paper

14 x 21 inches

$600

The shaman has summoned the dead to let them show themselves in all their vulnerability, in all their truth, and in all that could not be seen by the structures that cloud human's vision in the realm of the living. In this realm in between, you are called to speak your truth. You are not a suspect of anything; you are fully believed, for you have nothing left to hide. Here we see that truth transcends binaries of good and bad. Here we see that just because the forty-three students that went missing, died in Ayotzinapa, Mexico, doesn't  mean they are forgotten. It does not mean that their truth ceases to exist. Just because Breonna Taylor has not (yet) gotten justice in the realm of the living, it does not mean we will continue to perpetuate cycles of hate. This judgment is a call for clarity. Remove those blindfolds of blissful ignorance to see what really lies before your eyes. See the inequity with the poise and love of the tender chaman that hovers above. That chaman centers love and compassion as tools to decolonize and seek justice by seeing all human actions in their complex and often contradicting truths.

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