The creation of this design is rooted in resistance, it breathes life into the style of Taíno art with Meso-American influence and the strength/organization of Zapatistas. Created with the intention of caretaking seeds that will flourish in liberation for all. The radial design weaves in community, the symbolism of corn screams resilience, obsidian glyphs of protection a vessel that holds the grandfather medicine of Peyote. This design was created with love and rage for intertribal two-spirit gallery owners who are an important foundation of community that ripples out across so called borders. It was an honor to co-create this design that will represent their work and manifest that Afro-Indigenous future we pray for.
-Red Rojas, Logo Artist
Semillistas fuels the centuries-long resistance to colonization. Through our cultural teachings, we share about the value of life, our autonomy, our stories, our healing, and lineal legacy through our seeds. Creative expression of culture is an act of resistance among historically oppressed peoples. Semillistas preserves, and revitalizes knowledge and art through traditional and tradition-based culture bearers, as an act of reclamation. Healing is our liberation.
Seeds back. Birth back. Land back.
About the Semillistas Logo Artist
Red Rojas is 2 Spirit, Queer Xicanx Tlacuilo (they/them), born and raised in Yanaguana, Somi Se’k (San Antonio, Tx) of Purépecha and Chichimeca Lineage claimed by Kalpulli Ayolopaktzin. They are an interdisciplinary artist with a focus in sacred body art, fueled with the purpose of connecting with community through art, medicine, danza and palabra. Offering arte con intenciones of reconnecting with our highest self and ancestral knowledge, while actively decolonizing, centering community care and uplifting BITQPOC.
