Thumbs Up for the Mothership

A daughter of New Orleans, Dawn DeDeaux mines the landscape around her to engage in dialogues around issues of ecology and social justice. She channels scientist Stephen Hawking’s postulation that the Earth won’t survive in one hundred years and offers up a symbolic plan for escape, an installation that begins with a broken Southern Gothic column and features prints depicting looming figures in flowery spacesuits. Together with artist Lonnie Holley, “Thumbs Up for the Mothership” resurrects hope from despair, while giving the mothership a big thumbs up.