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Terremoto
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In the studio. Wayward, eclectic, and ridden with collage and torn bits, these canvasses are grounded by fragments from my drawings, and elsewhere, content from Terremoto (MX), sometimes together with digitized photographs from a 1906 family album. The album depicts school life with the Stockbridge Munsee Band of Mohicans, photographed by my grandfather, then twenty years old, who was teaching there. Landscape could be read in the tea leaves of seismic memory... As objects, these things are dense, crude, and marked like aging bodies. Fabulation enters the scene of making. The children keep watch. Remember how the animals were brought up from the benthic deep.  Ghost ponies throw off their riders. In the schoolhouse on a winter's night, deer meet with Melusine.

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An essay by architectural historian and curator Silvia Perea, "Christina McPhee: Terremoto," spring 2024 issue of LUMArt Magazine :  PDF

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