Muley Memory
2022
LAND BODY, Ogden Contemporary Arts, Utah
32 x 48” Archival Pigment Prints
This triptych piece was created while a resident in the Land Arts of the American West program and exhibited in the Land Body show at Ogden Contemporary Arts, curated by Kelly Carper.
In an effort to process grief contained within in the female-identifying body, Call explored parallels between her human body and the earth’s body. While participating in the Land Art’s program Call spent days walking the vermilion-umber landscape of Muley point. This process of embodiment led to feelings of sadness, anger, despair, and hopelessness. In observing the spaces between personal grief and climate grief an emergence occurred, a sensation of kinship. These visual images were created on the ancestral lands of the Dine people, the now-called site of Muley Point in Bears Ears National Monument. An invited guest, this imagery was generated throughout Call’s time as an artist resident with The University of New Mexico’s Land Arts of the American West program.