Geronimo / Goyathay

Geronimo, Goyathlay (1829-1909), an Apache shaman, and warrior in a changing world, leading raids into Mexico and the Southwest, continuously chased by the American cavalry and Mexican military. He eventually surrendered and was held at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, with his family, never to return home in the Chircahua Mountains. A true American, living in the old ways, hounded into the new. This is a part of a series of iconic, cardboard heads. They are larger than life, messy, direct, and stained with the construction process. They examine giants, flawed and fragile, pulled out of time: history, mortality, prolonged immortality. –Artist statement